KL Gross-Rosen was a Germanconcentration camp, located in Gross-Rosen. It was first set up in summer 1940 as a satellite camp to Sachsenhausen. It became an independent camp in 1941. The camp was known for its huge stone quarry and its brutal treatment of NN (Nacht und Nebel) prisoners. A total of over 500 female camp guards were trained and served in the Gross Rosen complex, which at its height in 1944, contained up to sixty little camps around eastern Germany and Poland. The women SS were staffed in many female subcamps; Bruennlitz, Graeben, Gruenberg, Gruschwitz Neusalz, Hundsfeld, Kratzau II, Oberalstadt, Reichenbach, and Schlesiersee Schanzenbau. It was liberated on February 14, 1945, by the Red Army.
One of the subcamps of Gross-Rosen was situated in the Czechoslovakian town of Brunnlitz. It was in this camp that Schindler's Jews survived the Holocaust. A total of 125,000 prisoners passed through the complex and 40,000 died.
Currently the village Gross-Rosen is called Rogoźnica, since it became part of Poland in 1945.
This camp, which takes its name from the nearby village of GrossRosen, Rogoznica in Polish, was originally instituted as a satellite camp to the Concentration Camp KZ Sachsenhausen, but became a principal and autonomous camp on the first of May 1941.
Despite its poetic name, GrossRosen has acquired a reputation as an infernal place by those who had the misadventure to have ended up there, because survival in that camp was barely possible.
GrossRosen was liberated on the 14th of February 1945 by troops of the Soviet 52nd Armata of the Ukrainian front.
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