title: Jasień, Lubusz Voivodeship
text: # Jasień, Lubusz Voivodeship
  
  Jasień (German: Gassen) is a town in Poland, in Lubusz Voivodeship, in Żary County. It has 4,309 inhabitants (2019).
  
  ## History
  
  During World War II Jasień was the location of the Nazi German slave labour camp AL Gassen, one of nearly one hundred subcamps of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp. Its prisoners, mostly Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Czechs, Croats and Frenchmen, were making warplane parts for Focke-Wulf AG. The camp, with around 700 acutely malnourished prisoners, operated from August 1944 until 13 February 1945, when the remaining workforce was sent on a death march to the Buchenwald concentration camp ahead of the Soviet advance.
  
  ## Sports
  
  The local football club is Stal Jasień. It competes in the lower leagues.
  
  ## Twin towns – sister cities
  
  See twin towns of Gmina Jasień.
  
  