Powiercie
Powiercie is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Koło, within Koło County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately east of Koło and east of the regional capital Poznań. The village has a population of 710. An agricultural school is situated here, formerly a gardening school. World War II During the most deadly phase of the Holocaust in Poland on January 16, 1942, the ''SS'' and police began deportations from the Łódź Ghetto to the Chełmno extermination camp nearby. German officials transported the Jews from Łódź by train to Koło railway station, six miles (10 km) northwest of Chełmno Chełmno (; older en, Culm; formerly ) is a town in northern Poland near the Vistula river with 18,915 inhabitants as of December 2021. It is the seat of the Chełmno County in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. Due to its regional importan .... There, the ''SS'' and police personnel supervised transfer of the Jews from the ...
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Chełmno Extermination Camp
, known for = , location = Near Chełmno nad Nerem, ''Reichsgau Wartheland'' (German-occupied Poland) , built by = , operated by = , commandant = Herbert Lange, Christian Wirth , original use = , construction = , in operation = – (1st period), – , gas chambers = 3 gas vans , prisoner type= mostly Jews , inmates = , killed = est. 152,000–200,000 , liberated by = Red Army, , notable inmates = Mordechaï Podchlebnik, Szymon Srebrnik, Szlama Ber Winer , notable books = , website = Chełmno or Kulmhof was the first of Nazi Germany's extermination camps and was situated north of Łódź, near the village of Chełmno nad Nerem. Following the invasion of Poland in 1939, Germany annexed the area into the new territory of Reichsgau Wartheland. The camp, which was specifically intended for no other purpose than mass murder, operated from , to , parallel to Operation Reinhard during the deadliest phase of the Holocaust, and again fro ...
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