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Chełmno

[khewm-naw]

noun

  1. a Nazi concentration camp in central Poland.



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The way that Chełmno and Treblinka were buried deep in the forest — few people would ever hear the screams.”

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The physical evidence was tricky, since the Nazis went to great pains to destroy the death camps – completely in the case of Treblinka, Chełmno and Sobibór – or at least to detonate the gas chambers, as they did at Auschwitz.

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His grandmother arrived at Southampton docks from Cologne aged 27, the day before the second world war broke out, and her mother was murdered at the Chełmno extermination camp in 1942.

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After the vast majority of Jews in the rest of Poland were already dead, murdered in pits or at Treblinka, Sobibór, Bełz ̇ec, or Chełmno, most Jews of the Auschwitz region were still alive.

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Almost literally no Jew who stood at the edge of a death pit survived, and almost literally no Jew who entered Treblinka or Bełz ̇ec or Sobibór or Chełmno survived.

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