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Gross Rosen The concentration camp Gross Rosen was made as a satellite camp during August 2, 1940. The concentration camp for a while had many females and became the camp with the most females. The first commander was SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer Arthur Rod. The last commander was SS – Sturmbannfuhrer Johannes Hassebroek. In May 1941 it became a concentration camp and closed down February 1945.
Gross Rosen Concentration Camp was a camp with mostly women prisoners. Out of 76,728 prisoners, nearly 26,000 of them were woman. Most of the woman were Jewish.
Small groups of Jews arrived from the Tarnow prison, in the Radom district, and from the German concentration camps Sachsenhausen, and Buchenwald.