Kulmhof an der Nehr

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Kulmhof an der Nehr was the German name for the Chełmno extermination camp, a Nazi facility in occupied Poland where mass killings of Jews and other victims were carried out during the Holocaust.


Statements (48)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Holocaust site
Nazi extermination camp
World War II site
commemorates victims of the Holocaust
country Nazi Germany
endDate 1943-03-11
evidenceDestruction cremation of corpses on open-air pyres
demolition of camp structures
exhumation of mass graves
finalClosureDate 1945-01
GermanNameOf Chełmno extermination camp
hasAlternativeName Kulmhof extermination camp
hasPart forest burial and cremation site
manor house killing site
hasPolishName Chełmno nad Nerem NERFINISHED
languageOfName German
locatedIn Chełmno nad Nerem NERFINISHED
Poland
Wartheland
occupied Poland
Łódź Voivodeship NERFINISHED
memorialType museum
notablePerpetrator Hans Bothmann NERFINISHED
Herbert Lange
numberOfVictimsEstimate 150000
180000
200000
operatedBy Reich Main Security Office
SS
partOf Final Solution
perpetratorUnit SS-Sonderkommando Kulmhof
postwarStatus memorial site
reopened 1944-06
startDate 1941-12-08
usedFor mass murder of Jews
mass murder of Poles
mass murder of Roma
mass murder of Soviet POWs
mass murder of disabled people
usedMethod carbon monoxide poisoning
gas vans
victimGroup Austrian Jews
Czech Jews
German Jews
Jews from the Łódź Ghetto
Polish civilians
Roma from the Łódź Ghetto
Soviet prisoners of war

Referenced by (2)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Chełmno extermination camp
alsoKnownAs
Chełmno nad Nerem ("Kulmhof an der Nehr (German, historical)")
hasAlternativeName

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