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Gross Rosen Lists

Introduction by Peter Landé

· Background
· Database
· Acknowledgements
· Searching the Database

Background

This list contains the names of 7,330 prisoners from various lists kept at the Gros Rosen concentration camp.

The Gross Rosen concentration camp located in Gross Rosen, Silesia (now Rogoznica, Poland) was established in 1940 as a sub camp of Sachsenhausen . In May 1941 it became a separate entity . Gross Rosen, initially located around a large stone quarry, was not a death camp such as Sobibor, but was famous for its brutality . In the early years the survival rate, especially for Jews and Soviet prisoners of war was very small.

By 1944 Gross Rosen changed markedly . Germany needed factory installations, especially in areas relatively difficult for American and British bombers to reach . By the end of 1944 as many as 97 auxiliary/forced labor camps in Poland, Sudetenland and Germany had been established . By the end of 1944, the number of prisoners rose to 70,000, including as many as 26,000 women and an estimated 57,000 Jews . Many of these prisoners, especially Hungarian and Polish Jews, almost all men and women under the age of 50, were sent to Gross Rosen from Auschwitz . It is estimated that from its beginning until its liberation by the Russians in January 1945 roughly 125,000 prisoners had been held there . There are no firm numbers as to how many died there, but the best estimate is 40,000, including those who perished during evacuations and forced marches in the last months of the war .

Until recently Gross Rosen prisoner lists have been fragmentary . However, the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen has managed to collect a large number of Gross Rosen lists and some of these are collected .Inquiries with respect to individual or family names may be sent to the Unitted States Holocaust Memorial Museum or Yad Vashem, both of which institutions are gradually acquiring copies of the massive ITS collection.

Most recently, in addition, a 1,700 page list of prisoners with about 40-50,000 names has been located in the ITS collection and plans are underway to make this material publicly available.

The two best sources for the history of Gross Rosen is Isabell Sprenger's Gross Rosen Ein Konzentrationalager in Schlesien and the Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos published by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum . Neither of these sources contains name lists.

Database

This database includes 7,330 prisoners from the following Gross Rosen Lists:

List Description	Number of Records
Hungarian prisoners alive as of 16-February-1945.	6,885	World Jewish Congress and ITS
Germans, including Austrians and Czechs who died at Gross Rosen	197	ITS collection, Gross Rosen list #46, pp. 22-42
Jews in Friedland (Subcamp of Gross Rosen) List 1	165	ITS Gross Rosen lists 1.1.11.1 folder 27A
Jews in Friedland (Subcamp of Gross Rosen) List 2	50	ITS Gross Rosen lists 1.1.11.1 folder 27A
Executions at unidentified Gross Rosen camps	33	ITS Gross Rosen lists 1.1.11.1 folder 44

The fields for this database are as follows (not all lists have information for all the following fields):

Number
Prisoner #
Surname
Given Name
Place of Birth
Date of Birth
Last Residence
Occupation
Transferred From
Comments
List Source
Image #

Acknowledgments

The information contained in this database was indexed from the files available at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The original source of the material was within the holdings of the ITS (International Tracing Service), Arolsen, Germany). Betti Black, Joan Mapelsden, Jolie Weininger, Liane Freedman, Lisette Tarragano, Natalya Likholatnikova, Paula Zieselman and Sharon Brearey, JewishGen volunteers, compiled the list.

In addition, thanks to JewishGen Inc. for providing the website and database expertise to make this database accessible. Special thanks to Warren Blatt and Michael Tobias for their continued contributions to Jewish genealogy. Particular thanks to Nolan Altman, Vice President of Data Acquisition and Coordinator of JewishGen's Holocaust Database files.

Nolan Altman
Coordinator - Holocaust Database
January 2010

Searching the Database

This database is searchable via JewishGen's Holocaust Database.

This database is searchable via JewishGen's Holocaust Database and the JewishGen Romania Database.