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Gross Rosen

My camp gross rosen was established in August 2nd of 1940. It is located in lower Silensia in a satellite camp of sachsenhausen. On May 1st of 1945 Gross Rosen became a self-sufficient camp. Gross Rosen had about 120,000 prisoner that passed through. About 40,000 prisoner vanished. At first, the prisoner were employed primarily as forced laborers in the concentration camps which the ss-owned granite quarry. Gross Rosen had three commanders who were: Arthur roedl, Wilhelm Gideon, and Johannes hassebroek. Gross Rosen built arm factories ,70 dud-camps (also know as satellite camps) were added ,and the number of prisoner grow. The first Jews to come to gross Rosen were from Dachau. Several hundred Jews
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who had worked there for Schindler were they were transported for labor at a new camp. There were 40,000 killed when they were walking to the camp.there were the biggest challenge in all times. That was to kill the Jews. Gross Rosen had about 125,000 prisoner. Why would the ss-gards have stopped helping the other camps. When they were building the camp the were so happy I that they were in pain. Gross Rosen had always say men everywhere to take care and tocher them in all ways. The Soviet forces approached in January 1945, the Germans began to evacuate gross rosen. They were dissolving subcamps east Oder river.it is estimated that of the 120,000 prisoners who passed. the gross rosen camp system, at least 40,000 died ether in the camp or in line. The Soviet forces liberated the main gross Rosen camp on February 13 1945. SS guards killed prisoners who became too weak to continue.Many prisoners died during the evacuations due to the lack of food and water.SS guards escorted at least 44,000 prisoners, many of whom were Jews, mostly on freight trains and under brutal conditions, to Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Flossenbürg, Mauthausen, Dora-Mittelbau, and Neuengamme-camps in the German

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