In 1772, following the First Partition of Poland, the town was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia. Between 1807 and 1815 Chełmno was part of the short-lived Polish Duchy of Warsaw, being re …

Oct 16, 2025 · The Chełmno (Kulmhof) killing center in German-occupied Poland was the first stationary facility where the Nazis used poison gas for the mass murder of Jews. The SS and police began …

Chelmno, Nazi German extermination camp on the Ner River, a tributary of the Warta, in German-occupied western Poland. It opened in December 1941 and closed in January 1945 and was …

Dec 7, 2025 · Along with Auschwitz, Belzec, Majdanek, Sobibór, and Treblinka, Chełmno was one of the six major Nazi death camps during the Holocaust. It was the first one to open, and was used …

Chełmno is a somewhat sleepy, but extremely interesting city of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. The name of this Gothic town comes from the Old Polish word "chełm", meaning hill. It is fascinating …

The death camp in the village of Chelmno in the Kolo County in central Poland became operational on 8 December 1941. The name given by the German occupation authorities to Chelmno was Kulmhof. …

Chełmno, [a] 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. Following the invasion of Poland in …

Between 1941 and 1945, the Nazis established five killing centers in German-occupied Poland — Chełmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, and Auschwitz-Birkenau (part of the Auschwitz camp …

Dec 12, 2024 · Hello and welcome to JRI-Poland’s new Town Explorer. We are focused on making the experience simpler for newcomers while maintaining advanced features for experienced researchers.

Nov 21, 2020 · Chelmno nad Nerem (Kulmhof an der Nehr) was a small village in the west of Poland that was occupied by the German Wehrmacht in the autumn of 1939. The Germans immediately …