gave its name to the entire area, Chełmno Land (and later an administrative unit of the Kingdom of Poland, the Chełmno Voivodeship), the local Catholic...

Chełmno or Kulmhof was the first of Nazi Germany's extermination camps and was situated 50 km (31 mi) north of Łódź, near the village of Chełmno nad Nerem...

of Pomerelia, located in central-northern Poland. Chełmno land is named after the city of Chełmno (historically also known as Culm). The largest city...

The Chełmno trials were a series of consecutive war-crime trials of the Chełmno extermination camp personnel, held in Poland and in Germany following...

the Chełmno Land as a fief to the Teutonic Order. In the course of the Order's decline after the 1410 Battle of Grunwald, the citizens of Chełmno, Toruń...

which the population of Chełmno is 19,605 and the rural population is 32,413. The county includes the protected area called Chełmno Landscape Park, which...

Belzec, to be killed. USHMM.org. "Chełmno". In total, the SS and the police killed some 152,000 people in Chełmno. In all, the Germans and their auxiliaries...

Chełmno, often known by its full name Chełmno nad Nerem (pronounced [ˈxɛu̯mnɔ ˌnad ˈnɛrɛm]; meaning Chełmno on the Ner river) is a village in the administrative...

separate from Greater Polish and Masovian, called the Chełmno-Dobrzyń-Kociewie supradialect, the Chełmno-Dobrzyń dialect is now considered to be part of the...

Polish capital in 1809. Medieval municipal rights modelled after Chełmno, known as Chełmno rights, became the basis of municipal form of government for various...

ISO 639-3 – Glottolog None IETF pl-kociewie Map of the dialects of Polish, including the Chełmno Kociewie Warmian dialect marked with the purple line....

The Diocese of Chełmno (Polish: Diecezja chełmińska; German: Bistum Kulm/Culm) was a Catholic diocese in Chełmno Land, founded in 1243 and disbanded in...

Konrad unsuccessfully attempted to conquer the adjacent pagan lands of Chełmno in Prussia during a 1209 crusade with the consent of Pope Innocent III...

Jews in Chełmno. At the age of fifteen, Srebrnik testified in June 1945 in the Polish trial of Chełmno personnel. He testified again about Chełmno in the...

Valerie "Valli" Kafka Pollak (25 September 1890 in Prague – Fall of 1942 at Chełmno extermination camp) was the second oldest sister of Franz Kafka. Valli...

persecuted for her Jewish origins, and sent to Chełmno extermination camp to be executed. She decides to visit Chełmno and discovers a link with a man by the...

(1519–1572) was a Polish nobleman (szlachcic). He was Łowczy of Chełmno since 1561, castellan of Chełmno since 1566, Court Hetman of the Crown and starost of Belz...

Pomerania (Farther) later succeeded by Brandenburg-Prussia Chełmno Land and Michałów Land (Chełmno Voivodeship), including the city of Toruń Western part...

Gmina Chełmno is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Chełmno County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. Its seat is the...

hosts and with the Holy Roman Emperor's support, had changed the status of Chełmno Land (also Ziemia Chełmińska or Kulmerland), to which they had been invited...

was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era. He was commandant of Chełmno extermination camp until April 1942, as well as leader of the SS Special...

Kashubia inhabited by ethnic Kashubians, Kociewie, Tuchola Forest and Chełmno Land. Pomerania has a relatively low population density, with its largest...

died. The Romani survivors of the ghetto were subsequently moved to the Chełmno extermination camp in early 1942. The Nazis intended on deporting all Romani...

Jan Małachowski (1623-1699) was Bishop of Chełmno (1676-1681), Bishop of Kraków (1681-1699), and Vice-Chancellor to the Crown. Małachowski spent his early...

of January 1942 some 10,000 Jews were deported to Chełmno (known as Kulmhof in German). The Chełmno camp set up by SS-Sturmbannführer Herbert Lange, served...

extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, and Chełmno in occupied Poland. Separate Nazi persecutions killed a similar or larger...

Chełmno Landscape Park (Chełmiński Park Krajobrazowy) is a protected area (Landscape Park) in north-central Poland, established in 1998, covering an area...

valley. This area includes the fertile Chełmno Land (German: Kulmerland), with historic cities such as Chełmno (German: Kulm), Toruń (German: Thorn),...

castellan of Elbląg since 1544 and Chełmno since 1545, voivode of the Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1546 and of Chełmno Voivodeship since 1551. He participated...

the reconquest of Chełmno Land but did not stop the Prussian invasions. At least Christian was able to establish the Diocese of Chełmno east of the Vistula...