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Chelmno concentration camp

Chelmno concentration camp was a Nazi concentration camp that was situated 70 km from Lodz near a small village Chelmno on Ner (Chelmno nad Nerem, Kulmhof in German), Wielkopolskie district. It is not to be confused with Chelmno city (Kulm, in German).

The death camp operated from December 8 1941 until January 1945 when it was liberated by Soviet troops. A special SS Sonderkommando called Sonderkommando Culmhof gassed people with exhaustion fumes and then burnt them.

It is estimated that 310,000 people died in the camp mainly Jewish population from Poland, also Poles, Czech and Soviet POWs.

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