Death Camps Of World War Ii

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with the elimination of the Jews, the Nazis gave them fierce living conditions often housing dozens of people in small buildings. Food was administered in very small amounts. Those that did not starve to death were either shot or sent to camps. Some were sent to concentration camps. There were also labor camps. During some of these trips, prisoners would be told that they were being relocated. Many of these people instead arrived at the extermination camps never to be heard from again.
The Polish town known as Kulmhof, though more popularly known as Chelmno, was the first place where mass killings by gas took place as part of the “Final Solution.” It was established in December of 1941. The first man in charge of this operation was Herbert Lange. This “Sonderkommando” or special commander, was once in charge of a T4 euthanasia program in which he was the overseer of the murder of psychiatric patients in the town of Posen. He had control of about 150 assorted German ...

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prisoners had dug four mass graves according to accounts from survivor Jacob Grojanowski (the only other survivor who escaped was Moroka Podchlebnik). The bodies were taken from the vans by these same Jewish prisoners and dumped into the holes. This group of “gravediggers” were selected from the deportees that came to Chelmno. They totalled usually up to forty people. The ones who could not meet the Nazi standards for work were simply shot and replaced come next shipment. At nightfall, they were taken back to the palace and held in a guarded room.
The camp operated from December 1941 through March 1943. All Jews in the surrounding areas had been killed so the camp was dismantled. ...

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