Chełmno extermination camp was located seventy kilometers from Łódź.

Jews carrying their possessions during deportation to the Chelmno extermination camp. Most of the people seen here had previously been deported to Lodz from central Europe. Lodz, Poland, between January and April 1942.

The camp was opened
in 1941 to kill the Jews
of the  Łódź Ghetto
and the Warthegau.

A synagogue in Kolo, a town near Chelmno, where Jews were kept until they could be loaded into gas vans, executed, and cremated at Chelmno.

Jews from the Lodz ghetto are loaded onto freight trains
for deportation to the Chelmno extermination camp.
Lodz, Poland, between 1942 and 1944.

View of the manor house in
Chelmno that became the site of
the Chelmno extermination camp.
Chelmno, Poland, 1939.
 

A young Jewish women writes her last letter before
boarding the deportation train to Chelmno.
 

After having annihilated almost all Jews residing in Wartheland District (aside from those remaining in the Łódź ghetto), the SS and police ceased transports to Chełmno in March 1943. Deploying surviving members of the Jewish special detachment, the SS and police demolished the manor house and the open air ovens in the forest camp and then shot the last Jewish forced laborers.