Gross-Rosen Museum in Rogoznica — Attraction in gmina Strzegom

I will write a deeper review another time.

The area is very rich in granite. In fact granite operations continue to this day. In some of the pictures you will see something that actually looks like a mine. This is not mined in now.

After the settlements that were made after the end of open world war in Europe (around 1945) the mine was closed.

This especially was a forced labour camp, and by this I mean the vast majority of the rounded up inmates died through being overworked.

I am going to expand on this very soon. However, what I have done now is put some more pictures up.

The visitor's centre can put on a video in at very least Polish and English. It is a very decent environment. Quite a few of the photos I took also show you a plan view of the accommodation (if you can call it that) grounds of the prisoners.

In the encampment of the prisoners, as it was then, most the buildings do not stand. However there is still the remains of buildings that visitors can enter into. One of these is a kitchen (see one of the pictures I...

Having visited Auschwitz, several of the Riese facilities (Owl Mointains) and the concentration camp at Lublin, the visit to Gross-Rosen Museum tied it all together.

The display in the initial entry building (on the right before you get to the camp gates) is, honestly, better done than some of the more elaborate (and well known) facilities. The translation book provided (and returned) has not only the "basic" information, but provides translations of many of the displayed documents. That was very well done and amazingly touching.

The camp itself is well restored, with enough of the buildings replaced to make it clear the size and scope of the biluildings, and the foundations of other buildings in place to provide a feeling of the overall camp size.

The quarry buildings are not as well documented, but to see the facility without the inclusion of the quarry would have diminished the experience...

Its hard too talk about something so tragic in a "positive way". I have so far been too 12-15 camps. Gross-Rosen has been done "very nicely". Little is still left of the camp but the minimalistic way how it is portrayed holds its strength. There is little information in the camp itself, but the (small) museum makes perfectly up for that. That information is only in polish, but they have excellent information books in english and german. If this is the first camp you'll ever visit it maybe doesnt gives you the full image of the extreme terror of the holocaust, but if you know your stuff a bit, this is absolutely a gem to visit.

Extra information: take polish money! They dont accept euro's and you are ofcourse not able to...