Gross-Rosen

Gross-Rosen

Concentration Camp

 

The original camp entrance at Gross-Rosen

The Nazis established Gross-Rosen on the 2 August 1940 in Lower Silesia, as a satellite camp of Sachsenhausen, in the vicinity of the granite quarry of Gross-Rosen. On 1 May 1941 Gross-Rosen became an independent concentration camp; it remained in operation until mid-February 1945, the camps commandants were as follows: 

 

  • SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer Arthur Rodl 1941 -1942

  • SS- Haupsturmfuhrer Wilhelm Gideon 1942

  • SS – Sturmbannfuhrer Johannes Hassebroek 1943 – 1944

 

 

Other notable members of the camp staff were as follows:

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                                                                http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/othercamps/grossrosen.html

The Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team

www.HolocaustResearchProject.org

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  • 11/3/2008 6:54 AM Gabor Hirsch wrote:
    It is more an enquiry as a comment.
    Does any records of former inmates exist to Gross Rosen? can you say when a camp number would probably issued.
    The number in Question is 39969

    Best regards
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