Grain elevator at Chelmno extermination camp
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Date
1945
Description
The grain elevator, where Jews were kept before they were loaded into gassing vans, killed, and then taken to the forest for cremation. This is also the site where 45 of the last 48 people held at Chelmno extermination camp were shot and burned before the advance of the Red Army.
Type
Photograph
Region
Global
Era
The Great Depression and WW II
Topic
Genocide, Global History and Geography, Jewish History, World War II
Repository
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Identifier
63766
Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Muzeum Okregowe Konin
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