SS-Sonderkommando Kulmhof
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SS-Sonderkommando Kulmhof was the Nazi SS unit responsible for operating the Chełmno (Kulmhof) extermination camp in occupied Poland, where mass killings of Jews and other victims were carried out primarily using gas vans.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| SS-Sonderkommando Kulmhof canonical | 1 |
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Target entity: SS-Sonderkommando Kulmhof Context triple: [Kulmhof an der Nehr, perpetratorUnit, SS-Sonderkommando Kulmhof]
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Birkenau cycle
The Birkenau cycle is a series of abstract paintings by Gerhard Richter that grapple with the memory and representation of the Holocaust, based on blurred and overpainted photographs from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
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Norilsk camps
The Norilsk camps were a notorious complex of Soviet forced-labor camps in Siberia where political prisoners and other inmates endured brutal conditions while constructing and operating the Norilsk mining and metallurgical industries.
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Eich
Eich is the surname of Brendan Eich, the American technologist best known as the creator of the JavaScript programming language and co-founder of Mozilla.
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Rumbula massacre
The Rumbula massacre was a mass killing of Latvian and German Jews near Riga in late 1941, one of the largest Holocaust shootings in Eastern Europe.
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Sobibor
Sobibor was a Nazi German extermination camp in occupied Poland where hundreds of thousands of Jews were murdered during the Holocaust and where a notable prisoner uprising occurred in 1943.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: SS-Sonderkommando Kulmhof Target entity description: SS-Sonderkommando Kulmhof was the Nazi SS unit responsible for operating the Chełmno (Kulmhof) extermination camp in occupied Poland, where mass killings of Jews and other victims were carried out primarily using gas vans.
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A.
Birkenau cycle
The Birkenau cycle is a series of abstract paintings by Gerhard Richter that grapple with the memory and representation of the Holocaust, based on blurred and overpainted photographs from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
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B.
Norilsk camps
The Norilsk camps were a notorious complex of Soviet forced-labor camps in Siberia where political prisoners and other inmates endured brutal conditions while constructing and operating the Norilsk mining and metallurgical industries.
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C.
Eich
Eich is the surname of Brendan Eich, the American technologist best known as the creator of the JavaScript programming language and co-founder of Mozilla.
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D.
Rumbula massacre
The Rumbula massacre was a mass killing of Latvian and German Jews near Riga in late 1941, one of the largest Holocaust shootings in Eastern Europe.
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E.
Sobibor
Sobibor was a Nazi German extermination camp in occupied Poland where hundreds of thousands of Jews were murdered during the Holocaust and where a notable prisoner uprising occurred in 1943.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nazi SS unit
ⓘ
perpetrator group of the Holocaust ⓘ |
| campTypeOperated |
death camp
ⓘ
extermination camp ⓘ |
| committedAgainst | civilian population ⓘ |
| country | Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| disbandedInYear | 1945 ⓘ |
| establishedInYear | 1941 ⓘ |
| formedForPurpose |
extermination of Jews from the Warthegau
ⓘ
extermination of Jews from the Łódź Ghetto ⓘ implementation of mass gassing ⓘ |
| hadCommander |
Hans Bothmann
ⓘ
Herbert Lange ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | World War II ⓘ |
| ideology | Nazism ⓘ |
| languageOfRecords | German ⓘ |
| locationOfOperation |
Chełmno nad Nerem
ⓘ
Warthegau ⓘ occupied Poland ⓘ |
| operated |
Chelmo extermination camp
ⓘ
surface form:
Chełmno extermination camp
Kulmhof extermination camp ⓘ |
| operationalSecrecyMeasures |
destruction of bodies in mass graves
ⓘ
later cremation of exhumed corpses ⓘ |
| partOf |
SS-Totenkopfverbände
ⓘ
Schutzstaffel (SS) ⓘ
surface form:
Schutzstaffel
|
| partOfOperation |
Final Solution
ⓘ
Holocaust in Poland ⓘ |
| perpetratorInEvent |
Chełmno extermination operations
ⓘ
deportations from Łódź Ghetto to Chełmno ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
crimes against humanity
ⓘ
genocide ⓘ mass murder ⓘ war crimes ⓘ |
| subordinateTo |
Reich Main Security Office
ⓘ
SS and Police Leader in Warthegau ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfActivity |
1941–1943
ⓘ
1944–1945 ⓘ |
| usedFacility |
forest killing site at Rzuchów
ⓘ
manor house at Chełmno ⓘ |
| usedMethodOfKilling | gas vans ⓘ |
| usedPoisonGas | carbon monoxide ⓘ |
| usedTransport | trucks converted into gas vans ⓘ |
| usedWeapon | gas vans ⓘ |
| victimGroup |
Lidice massacre
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surface form:
Czech children from Lidice
Jews ⓘ Poles ⓘ Roma ⓘ Soviet prisoners of war ⓘ disabled persons ⓘ |
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Subject: SS-Sonderkommando Kulmhof Description of subject: SS-Sonderkommando Kulmhof was the Nazi SS unit responsible for operating the Chełmno (Kulmhof) extermination camp in occupied Poland, where mass killings of Jews and other victims were carried out primarily using gas vans.
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