Chelmno

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Chełmno was a Nazi German extermination camp in occupied Poland where mass killings of Jews and other victims were carried out primarily using gas vans during the Holocaust.


Statements (49)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Holocaust site
Nazi German extermination camp
alsoKnownAs Kulmhof
Kulmhof an der Nehr
country Nazi Germany
endDate 1943-03-11
estimatedNumberOfVictims at least 152000
up to 200000
event destruction of evidence by exhumation and cremation of bodies
systematic extermination of Jews
finalLiquidationDate 1945-01
guardedBy German SS personnel
auxiliary police units
hasStructure cremation pyres
forest burial and cremation site
manor house killing site
mass graves
hasSurvivors very few known survivors
jurisdictionDuringOperation Reichsgau Wartheland
languageOfToponym Polish
locatedIn Chełmno nad Nerem
Greater Poland region
Wartheland
occupied Poland
locatedInPresentDayCountry Poland
memorial Chełmno extermination camp memorial site
notableFeature first stationary extermination camp established by Nazi Germany
mass killings carried out primarily using gas vans
operatedBy Reich Main Security Office
SS
partOf Final Solution
Holocaust in Poland
perpetrator Nazi Germany
Schutzstaffel
reopened 1944-06
startDate 1941-12-08
transportedFrom Koło
surrounding villages in Wartheland
Łódź Ghetto
usedMethodOfKilling carbon monoxide poisoning
gas vans
victimGroup Austrian Jews
Czech Jews
German Jews
Jews
Lodz Ghetto Jews
Poles
Roma
Soviet prisoners of war

Referenced by (20)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Holocaust
Nazi camp system ("Chelmno extermination camp")
notableCamp
Chełmno extermination camp ("Kulmhof")
alsoKnownAs
Chełmno extermination camp memorial site ("Chełmno extermination camp")
commemorates
Reichsgau Wartheland ("Chełmno extermination camp")
containsCamp
Łódź Ghetto ("Chelmno extermination camp")
deportationDestination
Łódź Ghetto Jews ("Chełmno extermination camp")
deportedTo
Final Solution
exterminationCamp
Kulmhof an der Nehr ("Chełmno extermination camp")
GermanNameOf
Wartheland ("Chełmno extermination camp")
hadCamp
Kulmhof an der Nehr ("Kulmhof extermination camp")
hasAlternativeName
Chełmno nad Nerem ("Chełmno extermination camp")
hasNearby
Chełmno nad Nerem ("Chełmno extermination camp")
historicallyKnownFor
Chełmno extermination camp memorial site ("Chełmno extermination camp")
namedAfter
Koło ("Chełmno extermination camp")
near
Porajmos ("Chelmno extermination camp")
notableSite
Belzec ("Chełmno extermination camp")
precededBy
Samudaripen ("Chelmno extermination camp")
tookPlaceIn
Koło ("Chełmno extermination camp")
transportRouteTo
German occupation of Poland ("Chelmno extermination camp")
usedFacility

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