Chełmno extermination camp, Extermination camp in Poland
Chełmno extermination camp was a Nazi German extermination camp situated 70 km from Łódź.
The camp operated from December 1941 to January 1945 during the Holocaust.
Chełmno became a symbol of the horrors of the Shoah and ethnic cleansing.
There is no public transportation directly to the memorial site.
Chełmno was the first extermination camp to use gas vans for mass killings.
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52.15417,18.72306
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