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    Chełmno or Kulmhof was the first of Nazi Germany's extermination camps and was situated 50 km (31 mi) north of Łódź, near the village of Chełmno nad Nerem...
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    of gas vans. The six extermination camps were Chełmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau. Extermination through labour was also...
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    /ˈbɛl.zɛk/ or /ˈbɛl.ʒɛts/, Polish: [ˈbɛu̯ʐɛt͡s]) was a Nazi German extermination camp in occupied Poland. It was built by the SS for the purpose of implementing...
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    The Chełmno trials were a series of consecutive war-crime trials of the Chełmno extermination camp personnel, held in Poland and in Germany following World...
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    Chełmno, often known by its full name Chełmno nad Nerem (pronounced [ˈxɛu̯mnɔ ˌnad ˈnɛrɛm]; meaning Chełmno on the Ner river) is a village in the administrative...
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    of German-occupied Europe. After the wave of deportations to Chełmno extermination camp beginning in early 1942, and in spite of a stark reversal of fortune...
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    Szymon Srebrnik (category Chełmno extermination camp survivors)
    was a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor of the Chełmno extermination camp – a German Nazi death camp established in occupied Poland during World War...
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    built specifically for Aktion Reinhard, as well as the original Chełmno extermination camp, and Majdanek which was fitted with mass killing facilities, along...
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    project of mobile extermination conducted at Soldau and at Chełmno extermination camp that began operating in 1941 and used gas vans. Chełmno (German: Kulmhof)...
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  • Herbert Lange (category Chełmno extermination camp personnel)
    German SS functionary during the Nazi era. He was commandant of Chełmno extermination camp until April 1942, as well as leader of the SS Special Detachment...
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    were handed over to SS families, and the rest were sent to the Chełmno extermination camp, where they were gassed to death. The Associated Press, quoting...
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    Hans Bothmann (category Chełmno extermination camp personnel)
    of the Chełmno extermination camp from 1942 on (SS card number 117630); leader of the SS Special Detachment Bothmann conducting the extermination of Jews...
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  • Szlama Ber Winer (category Chełmno extermination camp survivors)
    was a Polish Jew from Izbica Kujawska, who escaped from the Chełmno extermination camp during the Holocaust in German-occupied Poland. Szlamek (the diminutive...
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    "Valli" Kafka Pollak (25 September 1890 in Prague – Fall of 1942 at Chełmno extermination camp) was the second oldest sister of Franz Kafka. Valli Kafka attended...
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    Sobibor (/ˈsoʊbɪbɔːr/, Polish: [sɔˈbibur]) was an extermination camp built and operated by Nazi Germany as part of Operation Reinhard. It was located in...
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    secretive Operation Reinhard. The extermination camps (Vernichtungslager) were added to already functioning extermination through labor systems, including...
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    Christian Wirth (category Chełmno extermination camp personnel)
    single-handed, the extermination camps for the purpose of mass murder. Wirth later served as Inspector of all the Reinhard Camps. He was killed by the...
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    mental patients in the Soldau concentration camp. Gas vans were used, particularly at the Chełmno extermination camp, until gas chambers were developed as a...
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  • concentration camps and purpose-built extermination camps. The six major extermination camps and eight major euthanasia extermination centers are listed...
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    deceive victims and the camps' overall layout were based on a pilot project of mobile killing conducted at the Chełmno extermination camp (Kulmhof), which entered...
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  • Grojanowski Report (category Chełmno extermination camp)
    account about atrocities in the Nazi Chełmno extermination camp, written in 1942 by Polish-Jewish escapee from the camp, Szlama Ber Winer (also known incorrectly...
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    Mordechaï Podchlebnik (category Chełmno extermination camp survivors)
    former Extermination Camp in Chełmno-on-Ner". Archived from the original on 2012-09-03. Retrieved 2010-02-08. Michal Podchlebnik, 1945 Chelmno Survivor...
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    station - adjacent to the Łódź Ghetto - where people were sent to Chełmno extermination camp and Auschwitz. In 1988, a memorial was erected in Warsaw to commemorate...
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  • persecuted for her Jewish origins, and sent to Chełmno extermination camp to be executed. She decides to visit Chełmno and discovers a link with a man by the...
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  • Gustav Laabs (category Chełmno extermination camp personnel)
    Sonderkommando in Chełmno. The next day, he met Walter Burmeister, who drove him and another SS-man, Oskar Hering, to Chełmno. The camp, located in Chełmno nad Nerem...
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    secretive death camps—industrial-scale mass-extermination facilities—built in early 1942 for the sole purpose of murder. The Nazi extermination program depended...
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    maternal grandmother, Marie Kallmann, was killed in the gas vans of Chełmno extermination camp in German-occupied Poland.[citation needed] His paternal grandmother...
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    war crimes trial in history, spanning over 30 years Chełmno Trials of the Chełmno extermination camp personnel, held in Poland and Germany. The cases were...
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  • Germany in 1965, concerning the Sobibor extermination camp officials Chełmno Trials of the Chełmno extermination camp personnel; held in Poland and in Germany...
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    Jews from all over occupied Europe to German extermination camps in Poland: Auschwitz, Bełżec, Chełmno, Majdanek, Sobibór, and Treblinka. Most prisoners...
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