Chełmno nad Nerem (Kulmhof) - death camp

Poland / Wielkopolskie / Kolo /
 Second World War 1939-1945, Holocaust, concentration camp, war memorial, mass grave

Chełmno nad Nerem (German: Kulmhof) is a village in which the German Nazis set up a death camp during the second World War. The death camp was operating from autumn 1941 to April 1943, and for a short period of time in 1944. Nearly 300 thousand people of different nationalities lost their lives here: Jews, Poles, Romanies (Gypsies), Soviet prisoners and children from the Zamość district in Poland and from Lidic in the Czech Republic.
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Coordinates:   52°9'8"N   18°43'21"E
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