When the Nazi death camp Chelmno began operations 80 years ago this month, a new phase of the Holocaust was launched in a small Polish village along the Vistula River. At Chelmno, home to 35 ...

Chelmno was a local camp and its victims came from nearby.” Like the others who work at Kulmhof, Adam Dominiak, 27, was raised locally. His grandfather was a slave labourer on a farm taken over ...

The image was taken in the summer of 1942 at the Chelmno camp - where up to 200,000 Jewish men, women and children were murdered. The rare photograph was revealed in the recently-published book ...

Written and directed by Lior Geller, the film tells the true story of a group pf prisoners who broke out of the Third Reich’s first Nazi death camp, Chelmno. They are joined by Anton Lesser ...

Szlama Ber Winer, a Polish Jew, had escaped from the Nazi-run Chelmno camp in Poland where he had been forced to bury the bodies of thousands of victims as they were thrown out of gas vans.

Of the 320,000 Jews sent to Chelmno, the first Nazi extermination camp, only four are known to have survived. “The World Will Tremble” tells the story of two of them: Solomon Wiener and ...

While inventorying the museum’s archives and artifact collections for a move to a new facility, I discovered a small plexiglass box identified simply by the words “Ashes from Chelmno?” ...

At a place called Chelmno in Poland, which was then controlled by Germany. DAN SNOW: The camp was run by Herbert Langer, a German commander, and the local Jewish population was among the first to ...

Chelmno, says the Holocaust historian Dan Stone, holds a particular significance in the history of the Nazi-authored horror because it was “the first fixed site where Jews were killed using gas ...

Auschwitz, where more than 1 million Jews, Roma (Gypsies), Poles, Soviet prisoners of war and others were killed. But as horrific as they were, they were only three camp complexes in a system of ...

Previously, historians knew that other Lusatian groups used metal for ritualistic purposes, but the Chelmno group wasn’t thought to have engaged in this practice—until the recent findings at ...