"... The magnitude of the Holocaust, planned and carried out by the Nazis, must be forever seared in our collective memory (...).The depths of that horror, and the heights of their heroism, can be touchstones in our understanding of the human capacity for evil and for good ..."

                                    (from Stockholm Declaration signed in January 2000 by representatives of 45 states)


The I and the II World Wars reveal the truth about dark side of the human character. However during the World War I were introduced the most cruel technical means of fight and were brought to perfection methods of waging the war, the World War II brought to the world technology of extermination leading to total extinction of a whole nations. The concentration camps initially were the place of isolation and a settle of matters with a political opponents in the course of time were transformed in places of slavery work and plants of death. Such a place was KL Gross-Rosen, on which terrain there is now The Gross-Rosen Museum. It was the Ministry of Art and Culture who decided about coming into live the Museum on 21st April 1983 giving the statute which defines aims and tasks. 

So therefore 38 years after the World War II The Gross-Rosen Museum picked up a work target documentation suffering and death thousands of people on this strip of land. In the first period of existing Museum were led intensive works in three departments:

• Educational Department

• Documentation Department

• Scientific Research Department

Realising essential task of collecting and elaborating post-camp documents from the period of the World War II, till today we have collected 348 exhibits, 9101 archival units and over 3000 archival units accumulated on microfilms. There have been done 239 video records and 206 tape records of relations of former prisoners. It allows to reconstruct in part card-index of prisoners. There have been 70 000 names settled up today. Utilising collected documents workers of the museum work out research topics concerning history of the camp.

The Gross-Rosen Museum is financed by the local authorities, its founds are very limited and only partly allow to lead the complex research, archival and educational work. Our Museum is non-profit institution so we appeal to all willing to help for the material support.

The Gross-Rosen Museum's account: 

Bank Zachodni, O/Strzegom
Nr 93 10 90 23 43 00 00 00 05 98 00 03 04

We appreciate all your support. Thank you very much.

Available publications of the Museum Gross Rosen: 


Workers of the Museum lead the lessons in the schools of the Wałbrzych region as well as give the lectures at sanatorium in Szczawno Zdrój popularise knowledge about KL Gross-Rosen. There have been leaded 3880 lessons and 21 lectures up today.

At Museum in Rogoznica we propose visiting postcamp terrains and also the quarry - place of work of prisoners as well as having a glance of following exhibitions:

• Genesis of the Crime. Exhibition shows history of nazi movement from the beginning up to the Nurnberg Trial

• Subcamps of KL Gross-Rosen. Exhibition presents model of Sowie Mountains with map of subcamps, photos

• The Polish soldiers in german and soviet captivity 1935-1945

• The Object of everyday using in KL Groß Rosen.