The figure usually given is 152,000-153,000.
the estimated number of deaths is 150-300,000; it was mainly jews.
5,000 gypsies died at Chelmno.
Jews and some 'gypsies'.
The figure generally given is about 152,000. Nearly all of them were gassed in specially designed vans.
Chelmno was intended specifically for Jews. It was a killing centre rather than a camp in the conventional sense. A small number of Jews were forced to dig graves and bury the dead, but otherwise the aim was to kill all new arrivals within 24 hours.
Mainly from Gassing, Beatings and exhaustion.
Their was 4 big ones and 1 little barracks in Chelmno.
Chelmno was an extermination camp. The aim was to gas Jews within 24 hours of arrival, so the question of work did not arise. (A very small number of new arrivals were 'selected' to help with the extermination process, mainly by digging mass graves and dragging corpses around).
Atleast 140,000 Jews died at Auschwitz I.
The systematic mass gassings of Jews began on 8 December 1941 in Chelmno, Poland.
It is said around 152,000 people perished in Chelmno. There have been only 2 known survivors.
450,000 Jews died during the holocaust in Hungary