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Chełmno (khĕlm`nô), Ger. Kulm, city (1993 est. pop. 21,600), Kujawsko-Pomorskie prov., N central Poland. Its industries manufacture iron goods and beer. It was founded by Teutonic Knights in 1231, passed to Poland in 1466, and was included in Prussia in 1772. It reverted to Poland in 1919. Among its historic buildings are two Gothic churches and a 16th-century town hall. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Of that population, 130,000 were deported and exterminated, mostly at Chelmno or Auschwitz, while 60,000 died in the ghetto through starvation, disease, hypothermia, suicide or execution. But six--Auschwitz, Chelmno, Treblinka, Majdanek, Sobibor, and Belzec, all in occupied Poland, where the local population was considered less sympathetic to the Jews' plight--were deliberately outfitted for mass murder. It mirrored precisely what the other escapees revealed about the mass gassing and killing of Jews in Chelmno. |
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