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Commandant Arthur Roedl and SS officers visit the Gross-Rosen concentration camp's quarry. [LCID: 36223]
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Gross-Rosen

The Gross-Rosen concentration camp was originally established in 1940 as a subcamp of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. It became an independent concentration camp in 1941 and later expanded into an industrial complex fueled by forced labor. By January 1, 1945, there were over 76,000 prisoners in Gross-Rosen. Explore more content related to the concentration camp during the Holocaust (1933–1945). 

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Barbara Marton Farkas [LCID: bfd0529f]
Oral History
Barbara Marton Farkas describes the death march from the Gross-Rosen camp in Germany
Commandant Arthur Roedl and SS officers visit the Gross-Rosen concentration camp's quarry. [LCID: 36223]
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Commandant Arthur Roedl and SS officers at Gross-Rosen
Media Essay
Concentration Camps, 1939–42 - Photograph
Media Essay
Concentration Camps, 1939–42 - ID Card/Oral History
David (Dudi) Bergman [LCID: dbr0061m]
Oral History
David (Dudi) Bergman describes a roll call "violation" incident in the Reichenbach subcamp of Gross-Rosen
Death marches from Gross-Rosen, January 1945 [LCID: grr72060]
Map
Death marches from Gross-Rosen, January 1945
Media Essay
Death Marches: Maps
Ernest Domby [LCID: 5922]
ID Card
Ernest Dombi
Feliks Bruks [LCID: 4274]
ID Card
Feliks Bruks
Gitla Zoberman [LCID: 1403]
ID Card
Gitla Zoberman
Media Essay
Gross-Rosen
The commander of Gross-Rosen, SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer Arthur Roedl, at his desk with a photograph of Adolf Hitler hanging on the ... [LCID: 36214]
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Gross-Rosen commandant Arthur Roedl
Gross-Rosen concentration camp, 1945 [LCID: grr22044]
Map
Gross-Rosen concentration camp, 1945
Gross-Rosen environs, 1945 [LCID: grr44030]
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Gross-Rosen environs, 1945
Media Essay
Gross-Rosen - Maps
Media Essay
Gross-Rosen - ID Cards/Oral Histories

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