Chełmno extermination camp
Chełmno, or Kulmhof, was the first of Nazi Germany's extermination camps and was situated 50 km north of Łódź, near the village of Chełmno nad Nerem. Following the invasion of Poland in 1939, Germany annexed the area into the new territory of Reichsgau Wartheland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality
- Description: German extermination camp in occupied Poland
- Also known as: “Chelmno extermination camp”, “extermination camp Chelmno”, and “Vernichtungslager Kulmhof”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chełmno nad Nerem and Chełmno-Parcele.
Chełmno nad Nerem
Village
Chełmno, often known by its full name Chełmno nad Nerem is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dąbie, within Koło County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.
Chełmno-Parcele
Village
Chełmno-Parcele is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dąbie, within Koło County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.
Rzuchów
Village
Photo: Eder Thorunensis, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rzuchów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dąbie, within Koło County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in central Poland. Rzuchów is situated 2½ km northwest of Chełmno extermination camp.
Chełmno extermination camp
- Categories: extermination camp, concentration camp, and architectural heritage monument
- Location: Dąbie, Koło County, Wielkopolskie, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Chełmno extermination camp” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “معسكر الإبادة خيلمنو”
- Armenian: “Խելմնո”
- Belarusian: “Кульмгоф”
- Belarusian: “Хэлмна”
- Catalan: “Camp d’extermini de Chelmno”
- Catalan: “camp d’extermini de Chełmno”
- Catalan: “Camp d’extermini de Chełmno”
- Catalan: “Camp de concentració de Chelmno”
- Catalan: “Camp de concentració de Chelmo”
- Catalan: “Chelmno”
- Central Kurdish: “کەمپی خێلمنۆ”
- Chinese: “海乌姆诺灭绝营”
- Chinese: “海烏姆諾滅絕營”
- Czech: “Kulmhof”
- Czech: “Vyhlazovací tábor Chelmno”
- Czech: “Vyhlazovací tábor Chełmno”
- Czech: “Vyhlazovací tábor v Chelmnu”
- Czech: “Vyhlazovací tábor v Chełmnu”
- Danish: “Chełmno udryddelseslejr”
- Danish: “Chelmno”
- Danish: “Chełmno”
- Dutch: “Chełmno”
- Dutch: “Kulmhof”
- Esperanto: “Ekstermejo Chelmno”
- Esperanto: “Ekstermejo Chełmno”
- Finnish: “Chełmnon tuhoamisleiri”
- Finnish: “Kulmhof”
- French: “Camp d’extermination de Chelmno”
- French: “camp d’extermination de Chełmno”
- French: “Camp d’extermination de Chełmno”
- French: “Centre d’extermination de Chełmno”
- French: “Chelmno”
- French: “Chełmno”
- German: “Chelmno”
- German: “Konzentrationslager Kulmhof”
- German: “Kulmhof”
- German: “KZ Chełmno”
- German: “KZ Kulmhof”
- German: “Vernichtungslager Chelmno”
- German: “Vernichtungslager Kulmhof”
- Greek: “Στρατόπεδο εξόντωσης Χέλμνο”
- Hebrew: “חלמנו”
- Hebrew: “קולמהוף”
- Indonesian: “Kamp pemusnahan Chełmno”
- Italian: “Campo di concentramento di Chelmno”
- Italian: “Campo di concentramento di Chełmno”
- Italian: “Campo di sterminio di Chelmno”
- Italian: “campo di sterminio di Chełmno”
- Italian: “Campo di sterminio di Chełmno”
- Japanese: “KZ Chełmno”
- Japanese: “クルムホーフ強制収容所”
- Japanese: “クルムホーフ絶滅収容所”
- Japanese: “ヘウムノ強制収容所”
- Japanese: “ヘウムノ絶滅収容所”
- Korean: “헤움노 강제 수용소”
- Lithuanian: “Kulmo koncentracijos stovykla”
- Low German: “Chelmno”
- Low German: “Chełmno”
- Low German: “Kulmhof”
- Luxembourgish: “Vernichtungslager Chelmno”
- Newari: “केल्म्नो स्याइगु क्याम्प”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chełmno”
- Norwegian: “Kulmhof”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Camp de Chelmno”
- Persian: “اردوگاه مرگ خلمنو”
- Polish: “Kulmhof”
- Polish: “Lager Kulmhof”
- Polish: “Obóz zagłady (Lasy Rzuchowskie)”
- Polish: “Obóz zagłady w Chełmnie nad Nerem”
- Polish: “SS-Sonderkommando Bothmann”
- Polish: “SS-Sonderkommando Kulmhof”
- Polish: “SS-Sonderkommando Lange”
- Polish: “Vernichtungslager Kulmhof”
- Polish: “Vernichtungslager Sonderkommando Kulmhof”
- Portuguese: “Campo de concentração de Chełmno”
- Portuguese: “Campo de extermínio de Chelmno”
- Portuguese: “Campo de extermínio de Chełmno”
- Romanian: “Lagărul de exterminare Chełmno”
- Romanian: “Lagărul de exterminare Kulmhof”
- Russian: “Кульмхоф”
- Russian: “Хелмно”
- Serbian: “Logor smrti Helmno”
- Serbian: “Концентрациони логор Хелмно”
- Serbian: “Логор смрти Келмно”
- Serbian: “Логор смрти Хелмно”
- Serbian: “Логор Хелмно”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Logor smrti Chelmno”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Logor smrti Chełmno”
- Spanish: “Campo de exterminio de Chelmno”
- Spanish: “Chelmno”
- Swedish: “Chelmno”
- Swedish: “Chełmno”
- Swedish: “Förintelselägret i Chelmno”
- Swedish: “Förintelselägret i Chełmno”
- Swedish: “Koncentrationslägret Chelmno”
- Swedish: “Koncentrationslägret i Chełmno”
- Swedish: “Kulmhof”
- Turkish: “Chełmno imha kampı”
- Ukrainian: “Хелмно (табір смерті)”
- Ukrainian: “Хелмно”
- Uzbek: “Chelomno konslageri”
- Vietnamese: “Trại hủy diệt Chełmno”
- Western Frisian: “Chelmno”
- Western Frisian: “Chełmno”
- Yiddish: “כעלמנא פארטיליקונג לאגער”
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