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Chelmno Land is situated between the Vistula River, Osa and Drweca.
Chelmno Land or Culmland In various times was considered to be part of the neighbouring provinces of Mazovia, Cuiavia, Greater Poland, Prussia, Pomerania and today it is a part of Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodship.
In 10th century Chelmno Land was inhabited by the lekhitic tribes of Kuyavians and Masovians.
www.interklasa.pl /portal/dokumenty/r101/en/opis.html   (378 words)

  
 de Chelmno Che #322 mno also referred to as Kulm...
The town of Chelmno together Chelmno Land Chelmno Land was part of Teutonic Knights Teutonic Knights state until 1466, when after Thirteen Years' War Thirteen Years' War Chełmno was incorporated back into Poland and made the capital of Chelmno Voivodship Chelmno Voivodship.
Between 1807 and 1815 Chelmno was part of Duchy of Warsaw Duchy of Warsaw.
Chelmno was recovered by Poland Poland in 1920.
www.biodatabase.de /Chelmno   (287 words)

  
 Chelmno   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The first written mention about Chelmno is known from a document allegedly issued in 1065 by Polish duke Boleslaus I of Poland for the Benedictine Monastery in Mogilno.
The town of Chelmno together Chelmno Land was part of Teutonic Knights state untill 1466, when after Thirteen Years' War Chełmno was incorporated back into Poland and made the capital of Chelmno Voivodship.
Between 1807 and 1815 Chelmno was part of Duchy of Warsaw.
www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/c/ch/chelmno.html   (183 words)

  
 Herbarz Polski (Ba)
Krzysztof was buried in Chelmno and the marble tombstone laid in 1653.
JAN IGNACY BAKOWSKI, son of Alexander, was Chamberlain of Chelmno, and later, Voivode of Pomorze; treasurer of the Prussian territories; head of Brodnicki, Skarszewski, and Borzechowski Counties; and finally, the Voivode of Malbork.
STANISLAW IGNACY BAKOWSKI, Chamberlain of Chelmno, son of Jan Ignacy, the voivode of Malbork, was thrice deputized to the Sejm: for the coronation of King August II in 1697, when he signed the Confirmationern Jurium Gentium; in 1699; and before that, in 1696, to the general convocation in Warsaw.
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 Shofar FTP Archives: camps/chelmno/polish-central-commission-report
Little has been published on Chelmno, despite its significance as the first extermination camp to become operational (the Germans began the preparation work at Chelmno two full months before the Wansee Conference, which is considered as the key milestone in the operational launching of the Jewish mass extermination program in Europe).
The village of Chelmno (district of Kolo) is situated 14 km.
Part II The aim of the Chelmno camp was the extermination of the Jews from the Warthegau, the part of Poland which consisted of the 1939 province (voivodship) of Poznania, almost the whole province of Lodz, and a part of the province of Warsaw, inhabited altogether by 4,546,000 People (including 450,000 Jews).
www.nizkor.org /ftp.py?camps/chelmno/polish-central-commission-report   (3669 words)

  
 Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodship - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Kujavian-Pomeranian Voivodship (in Polish województwo kujawsko-pomorskie) is an administrative region or voivodship in central-northern Poland.
Created on 1 January 1999 out of the former Bydgoszcz, Torun and Wloclawek voivodships as a result of Local Government Reogranization Act of 1998.
The voivodship's name recalls the 2 historical regions of Pomerania and Kuyavia (or Cuiavia).
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Kuyavian-Pomeranian_Voivodship   (164 words)

  
 GJHGS - Chelmno - Excerpt from German Crimes in Poland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The aim of the Chelmno camp was the extermination of the Jews from the Warthegau, the part of Poland which consisted of the 1939 province (voivodship) of Poznania, almost the whole province of Lodz, and a part of the province of Warsaw, inhabited altogether by 4,546,000 People (including 450,000 Jews).
whence their baggage was dispatched straight to Chelmno, while they themselves were taken under an escort of 6 to 8 gendarmes to the neighbouring village of Zawadki, and left for the night in a large mill building.
The final activities of the camp at Chelmno in 1944 differ from those of 1941-1943 in this, that the victims were brought from Kolo by a local branch railway line direct to Chelmno, where they were left for the night in the church, and the next day were taken directly to Rzuchow wood.
www.gombin.org /history/german_crimes.html   (3651 words)

  
 Explore - Part 10
Chelmno is one of those Hanseatic inland towns on the Polish territories that is surely worth a visit.
In the 14th century, this capital of the Chelmno Province and a member of the Hanseatic League became famous for its excellent handicrafts, especially for its woollen cloth of good quality.
Chelmno was also an important center of grain trade thanks to the local fertile soils.
www.poloniatoday.com /explore10.htm   (1614 words)

  
 The Extermination Camp at Chelmno (Kulmhof). Central Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland. 1946
The extermination camp at Chelmno was a typical death camp, i.
The aim of the Chelmno camp was the extermination of the Jews from the Warthegau, i.
The auto transports came directly to Chelmno] whence their baggage was dispatched straight to Chelmno, while they themselves were taken under an escort of 6-8 gendarmes to the neighbouring village of Zawadki, and left for the night in a large mill building.
www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /genocide/gcpol8.htm   (3619 words)

  
 Wikipedia: Elblag
County-city and site of the Elblag County, situated in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodship since 1999, previously capital of Elblag Voivodship (1975–1998), and a county-site of Gdansk Voivodship (1945–1975).
In 12th–13th centuries region of Pogesania was loosely dependent on the Polish duchy of Eastern Pomerania.
The task of Christianization of the territory was given to the Christian, bishop of Prussia (Zantyr) and the Teutonic Order who received Chelmno Land as fief from the Polish duke Konrad of Mazovia.
www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/e/el/elblag.html   (1251 words)

  
 Chelmno - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Chełmno is a town in northern Poland with 22,000 inhabitants (1995) and the historical capital of Chelmno Land also known as Kulmland.
The town of Chelmno together Chelmno Land was part of the Teutonic Knights' state until 1466, when after Thirteen Years' War Chełmno was incorporated back into Poland and made the capital of Chelmno Voivodship.
You can find it there under the keyword Chelmno (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelmno)The list of previous authors is available here: version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chelmnoandaction=history).
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Chelmno   (420 words)

  
 Chelmno - Gurupedia
Polish duke Boleslaus I of Poland for the Benedictine Monastery in Mogilno.
The town of Chelmno together Chelmno Land was part of
Teutonic Knights state until 1466, when after Thirteen Years' War Chełmno was incorporated back into Poland and made the capital of Chelmno Voivodship.
www.gurupedia.com /c/ch/chelmno.htm   (210 words)

  
 Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Each voivodship had its own parliament (sejmik), which exercised serious political power, including choice of posel (deputy) to the national Sejm and charging of the deputy with specific voting instructions.
Voivodships were further divided into starostwa, each starostwo being governed by a starosta.
Mazovian Voivodship (województwo mazowieckie, of Mazowsze, Warsaw) consisting of
libraryoflibrary.com /E_n_c_p_d_Polish-Lithuanian_Commonwealth.html   (5319 words)

  
 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Zarnowiec   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Żarnowiec is a village in northern Poland, in the northern part of the Pomorskie voivodship, close to Zarnowieckie lake[?].
in 1590 it was taken by a female order of Benedictines from Chelmno[?].
In 1772 it was taken over by Prussia, after first partition of Poland.
www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/za/Zarnowiec   (252 words)

  
 Torun, architecture and history
For the citizens of numerous towns established throughout the 13th and 14th centuries, the document was a very favourable adaptation of the German Magdeburg statutes.
Under the act Pomerania with the Vistula estuary and the Chelmno and Michalow regions were returned to Poland as "lands by nature Polish".
After the Second World War, Torun ceased to be the voivodship capital and the headquarters of district military and railways authorities.
mahan.wonkwang.ac.kr /link/med/art/arch/castle/Torun/Torun-eng.html   (6024 words)

  
 Chełmno Land - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In various times it was considered to be part of the neighbouring provinces of Masovia, Kuyavia, Greater Poland, Prussia, and Pomerania; it is currently part of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodship.
In 1243 the papal legate William of Modena divided Prussia into four dioceses under the archbishop of Riga, one of which was Chełmno Land.
In 1772 as a result of the First Partition of Poland, Chełmno Land (with the exception of Toruń) was seized by the Kingdom of Prussia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chelmno_Land   (677 words)

  
 Pomeranian Voivodship
(1) Pomeranian voivodship (1999-), administrative and local government unit of the Republic of Poland established on January 1, 1999 out of former voivodships of Gdansk, Elblag and Slupsk, as a result of Local Government Reogranization Act of 1998.
The independent town Gdansk is the center of the voivodeship.
was a unit of administration and local government in Poland established 1945 from most of pre-war Pomeranian Voivodship (3), later renamed Bydgoszcz Voivodship.
www.governpub.com /Capitals-P/Pomeranian_Voivodship.php   (340 words)

  
 Royal Prussia - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
During the war, the Prussian Confederation, led by the cities of Gdansk (Danzig), Elblag (Elbing) and Torun (Thorn) and gentry from Chelmno Land rose (February 1454) with Polish support against the Order's rule.
The eastern part of Prussia remained under the rule of the Order and its successors, until 1660 under Polish suzerainty as a Polish fief, becoming the Duchy of Prussia in 1525 when the Order's Grand Master Albert of Brandenburg adopted Lutheranism and secularised his land as hereditary ruler.
Royal Prussia included Eastern Pomerania (Pomeranian Voivodship), Chelmno Land, Malbork Voivodship, Gdansk, Torun and Elblag.
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 Other Information of- Lettuce ladies.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Pomorze Voivodship (Polish language : województwo pomorskie) is an administrative region or voivodship in northern Poland within the historic region of Eastern Pomerania Pomorze.
Pomorze Voivodship borders, to the west, on West Pomeranian Voivodship, and extends eastward along the Baltic Sea.
The Pomeranian Voivodship (Polish: Województwo Pomorskie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in the The Jagiellon Era since 1454 / 1466 till the partitions in 1772 / 1795.
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 Wikinfo | Torun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
One of the capitals of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodship (since 1999), previously capital of Torun Voivodship (1975-1998) and the Pomeranian Voivodship (1921-1939).
Toruń was a small settlement in Chelmno Land (Ziemia Chelminska, Kulmerland), a western part of Mazovia.
1919 After World War I, under the Treaty of Versailles, the city returned to Polish sovereignty, becoming the capital of the province of Pomeranian Voivodship.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Torun   (698 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Duchy of Warsaw   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
New East Prussia (except Bialystok district which was given to Russia)
parts of West Prussia (mainly Netze district and Chelmno Land)
Gdansk was made a free city with French and Polish garrisons there.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Duchy_of_Warsaw   (428 words)

  
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Toruń was the birthplace of the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473).
Later it was spelled Thorn, and after the second world war the official name was changed to Toruń when the city became part of Poland.
• 1919 After World War I, under the Treaty of Versailles, the city became part of Poland, becoming the capital of the province of Pomeranian Voivodship.
www.sp2sgf.net /en/torun.htm   (691 words)

  
 Structurae [en]: Chelmno
Geographic Index / Europe / Poland / Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodship / Chelmno
city / town in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodship, Poland, Europe
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 Holocaust: Chelmno
If you are interested in more, the book
Nazi Mass Murder : A Documentary History of the Use of Poison Gas, edited by Eugen Kogon and others (1993), contains a chapter on Chelmno written by Schmuel Krakowski.
From April 1943, till the final "liquidation" of the camp in January 1945, strictly speaking the camp was not functioning, the total number of transports in this period amounting only to 10, bringing approximately 10,000 people.
www.nizkor.org /hweb/camps/chelmno/report.html   (3778 words)

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