The museum is located near Chełmno, in the Rzuchów forest, in the former German extermination camp of Kulmhof. The facility occupies the area of the former camp and former landed estate: the palace and the granary. Watching the permanent exhibition we will learn about the history of the camp. Worth seeing is the lapidarium of tombstones from Jewish cemeteries in Konin
The restored granary houses an exhibition about the camp. The place of the exhibition is not accidental, because in this building a group of the last Jewish prisoners of the camp were murdered. It exhibited, among others everyday items, work tools and related items. with religious worship. Eyewitness voices play a large role in the exhibition's narrative.
From December 8, 1941, until April 1943, and briefly in mid-1944, the German camp Kulmhof an der Nehr operated near Chełmno. It exterminated Polish Jews, Poles, Roma and Soviet prisoners of war. Few managed to escape. Currently, in the forest near Chełmno, in the place of former hearths and cremation stacks, there is a monument to commemorate the hundreds of thousands of victims.
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