Groß Breesen (teaching property)

Founded in May 1936 in Gro&szlig Breesen (today: Brzezno Trzebnica) near Trebnitz as an emigration estate to prepare for North and South America, three two-year courses were completed. However, plans for a joint emigration of all Breeseners to Übersee failed. From the first course many still found an individual way abroad in 1937/1938. On November 10, 1938, the estate was raided by SS men, the male members of the second course, the educators and almost all the foremen were taken to the Buchenwald concentration camp, and a number of things on the estate were destroyed. From December 1938 to January 1939 they were released from the concentration camp with the obligation to emigrate immediately. Those who went to Holland were also deported from there after the German invasion. Groß Breesen again accepted 114 participants for a third course in 1939. Those of them who were still living in Groß Breesen in 1943 were transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp and killed immediately, there was only one survivor among them, Hans Hirsch.