Chelmno Death Camp The gates at Chelmno By

Chelmno Death Camp The gates at Chelmno. By: Tyler Jankowski & Autumn Capizzo Hr 1

Camp location Chelmno was located in a small town in Poland called Lodz. The purpose of chelmno death camp was to kill people such as jews. The years of operation was 1941 -1945.

The living conditions of chelmno death camp. Living conditions at chelmno death camps were horrible. Women and men were forced to dig graves for friends, family, etc. There was not much room at night to sleep. Women and men were all clumped together. Most got killed in a gas van where they would let out a gas and from breathing it in they would suffocate. The grounds to chelmno death camp. Inside the gas van.

Survivor Story. � March 1944 the Germans opposed a round-up. They caught Szymon Srebrnik while he was on a street car. He was loaded inside and driven off. Upon that he met some other jews and some of there names were Zydenfeld, Berek, Modownik, Kalmuszewicz, Huskiel. He could not recall anymore names. They took him to Chelmno grounds and in a hour divided all of them into groups. They were than assigned work. The stronger ones went into the woods. And the not so fit weaker ones , nobody knows what happened to them. After the first day he was assigned shackles. They made it hard to walk and painful. Nobody knows how he did it. But for the years he was there he managed to survive.

Liberations of camp chelmno. � At Chelmno death camp, there was really no freedom. Most of them died unless they were good workers. The most freedom they had was maybe a break once in a while. They didn’t even have the privilege to get a good night of sleep. They all were smashed together and uncomfortable. They didn’t have good food either. They got the scraps. All together for the hard work they did, they got no freedom.

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