Gruszeczka


Gruszeczka is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Milicz, within Milicz County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.
It lies approximately south-west of Milicz, and north of the regional capital Wrocław.

World War II

Gruszeczka was the location of Birnbäumel Concentration Camp with around 1,000 women prisoners working for Nazi German company Unternehmen Barthold. Birnbäumel was a subcamp of Gross-Rosen concentration camp complex, with the majority of inmates, both Christian and Jewish, deported from across occupied Poland.