T
he Chelmno extermination camp was designed to kill Jews of the Lodz, Poland, ghetto. The camp was divided into two parts, the manor camp and the forest camp. In the manor camp prisoners were unloaded, forced to undress, and then loaded back onto trucks where they were killed with carbon monoxide gas. The bodies were then taken to the forest camp, where they were buried in mass graves or burned in open ovens. At least 152,000 people were killed at Chelmno, most from the Lodz ghetto and other western towns in Poland.
Timeline
Victims: 152,000
Killed
Country
Poland
Location: City
Chelmno
Other: Beginning of deportation of Jews from Lodz Ghetto
16 Jan 1942
Other: Chelmno camp established
7 Dec 1941
Other: Gassing operations begin
8 Dec 1941
Other: Polish Jew, Jacob Grojanowski escapes from Chelmno
19 Jan 1942
Other: Last Jews from Lodz killed at Chelmno
23 June 1944
Other: Chelmno reopens for mass killings
14 Feb 1944
Other: Killing operations end
14 July 1944
Other: The Forest Camp is closed
7 Apr 1943
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