Articles on prisoners’ hospitals in Gross–Rosen concentration camp published in Przegląd Lekarski – Oświęcim Dorota Sula
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ross–Rosen concentration camp was established in August 1940 in the vicinity of the quarry near the village of Gross–Rosen (now Rogoźnica, Lower Silesia, Poland). Initially it was a sub-camp of Sachsenhausen, but
as of 1 May 1941 it was an independent concentration camp. Poles, Germans, and
Czechs were its first prisoners. Large Jewish groups, mostly from Germany, started to arrive after Gross–Rosen became an independent camp. Nearly 125 thousand prisoners were held in Gross–Rosen (the main camp and about a hundred subcamps). Apart from Jewish prisoners, the largest national groups were Polish and Soviet prisoners. Inmates held in the main camp worked in the quarry and on the construction and extension of the camp, while those in most of the sub-camps worked in the industrial plants for which the particular sub-camp was set up as a la-
About the author: Dorota Sula is a historian. She defended her doctoral dissertation at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin in 1999, and her post-doctoral dissertation at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań in 2015. She is currently a researcher at the GrossRosen Museum in Rogoźnica. Her research interests revolve around the concentration camp complexes, especially Gross-Rosen, and the question of forced resettlements, including displacements, deportation, and repatriation of Poles in Russia and the USSR in the 20th century.
