Chelmno The extermination camp operated from December 1941 till March 1943.
they didn't it was a extermination camp not a concentration camp
The sole purpose of Chelmno was extermination by gassing in closed vans.
Chelmno was an extermination camp. There are only two known survivors.
Michael Podchlebnik and Szymon Srebrnik were the two survivors from Chelmno.
Yes, Chelmno was the first extermination camp and began routine gassings on 8 December 1941. A small number of Jews were used to dig mass graves for others, but apart from that it was not used as forced labour camp.
Chelmno was an extermination camp (killing centre) and served no other purpose at all: the aim was to gas all new arrivals within 24 hours ... Occasionally, a few were 'selected' to help with the disposal of the corpses.
The first extermination camp was at Chelmno. It began large-scale routine (as opposed to experimental) gassings on 8 December 1941, using sealed vans with the carbon monoxide exhaust diverted into the vans. The total death toll at Chelmno is estimated at about 152,000-153,000 and there are only two (!) known survivors.____Concentration camps, originally established for political prrisoners, had been established already in March 1933. Dachau, near Munich, was the first concentration camp. It had a high death toll but it was not an extermination camp.
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).
Chelmno and Belzec came into operation as an extermination camp a few months before Auschwitz II.
In May 1942 Gabin's Jews were deported to the Chelmno extermination camp. Sossia, Isadore and four of their sons were killed..
The first Nazi extermination camp - that is a 'killing facility', designed to kill prisoners as soon as practical after arrival (usually within 12- 48 hours after arrival) - was Chelmno, which began routine mass gassings on 8 December 1941. Most of the extermination camps began operation from March 1942 on/Please see related question.