Gross-Rosen Concentration Camp The Gross-Rosen Concentration
Camp was initially organized as a subcamp for Sachsenhausen. It
became an independent camp in 1941. Prisoners were sent to work
in the nearby granite quarry, and as the camp expanded, many
prisoners worked in the factories of several subcamps. The most
famous of Gross-Rosen's subcamps was Brunnlitz where the workers
of Oskar Schindler's textile factory were interned. Overall,
Schindler saved over a thousand Jews who worked in this camp.
Gross-Rosen was a large and very typical Nazi concentration
camp. In 1944, Gross-Rosen reached its peak population, holding
eleven percent of all Nazi prisoners in the main and subcamps.
When the Soviet Army began moving west, thousands of Jews were
transferred from Auschwitz and other Polish camps to Gross-Rosen
where they were interned until the Soviets liberated the camp in
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