The defendants are charged with the murder of 180,000 Jews in the camp in Nazi-held Poland during the war. The witness, Max Surawsky, an Israeli who came here to testify, said that such Jewish ...

Chelmno, located in German-occupied Western Poland, was the first Nazi extermination camp to conduct the large-scale execution of Jews using gas. Between 1941 and 1944, more than 172,000 Jews were ...

7 Hamas attacks. Chelmno was the first of six extermination camps established by the Nazis solely for mass murder during World War II. It is about 300 miles from Majdanek, the extermination camp ...

Map data: Natural Earth *The other two extermination camps active at the time of the Allied offensive in the summer of 1944 are Chelmno and Auschwitz II. The Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka, ...

DAN SNOW: The camp was run by Herbert Langer ... to Herbert Langer's new improvised extermination facility at Chelmno. NARRATOR: Jews from the immediate area had been the first to die here ...

7 Hamas attacks. Chelmno was the first of six extermination camps established by the Nazis solely for mass murder during World War II. It is about 300 miles from Majdanek, the extermination camp ...

The Nazis' decision to wipe out Europe's Jewish population in extermination camps went into operation early in 1942. Six were built in occupied Poland: at Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka ...