The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is Chełmno extermination camp.
Chełmno concentration camp was a Naziextermination camp that was situated 70 km from Łdź near a small village Chełmno nad Nerem (Kulmhof an der Nehr, in German), in Greater Poland (which was, in 1939, annexed and incorporated into Germany under the name of Reichsgau Wartheland). It is not to be confused with Chełmno city (Kulm, in German).
The death camp operated from December 8, 1941 until April 1943 when it was closed down and its crematorium blown up. In spring 1944 it was reestablished and closed down again in fall 1944. A special SSSonderkommando called Sonderkommando Kulmhof gassed people with exhaust fumes and then burnt them.
It is estimated that 360,000 people were killed in the camp, mainly Jews and Gypsies from Greater Poland and Łdź Ghetto, and some Hungarian Jews, Poles, Czechs and Soviet prisoners of war.
Chełmno concentration camp was a Naziextermination camp that was situated 70 km from Łódź near a small village Chełmno nad Nerem (Kulmhof an der Nehr, in German), in Greater Poland (which was, in 1939, annexed and incorporated into Germany under the name of Reichsgau Wartheland).
In spring 1944 it was reestablished and closed down again in fall 1944.
It is estimated that 360,000 people were killed in the camp, mainly Jews and Gypsies from Greater Poland and Łódź Ghetto, and some Hungarian Jews, Poles, Czechs and Soviet prisoners of war.
It was the first extermination camp, opened in 1941 to kill the Jews of the Łódź Ghetto and the Warthegau; it was the first camp to use poison gas.
As soon as the ramp had been erected in the castle, people started arriving in Kulmhof from Lizmannstadt in lorries...
The people were told that they had to take a bath, that their clothes had to be disinfected and that they could hand in any valuable items beforehand to be registered...
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