By: Caitlin McSpadden

Chelmno

•First killing center to begin operations, in December 1941

•located in Wartheland, which was a part of Poland annexed to Germany

•killed at least 152,000 people between December 1941 and March 1943

Jews being loaded up and taken to Chelmno

Auschwitz-Birkenau

•Largest killing center

•located in Upper Silesia

•At least 865,000 Jews were killed upon arrival

•nearly 10,800 Jews and 2,900 Gypsies were killed in gas chambers

Entrance to Auschwitz-Birkenau used by trains

Operation Reinhard

• included Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka II killing centers

•Plan to kill 2 million Jews

•killed 1,526,500 Jews between March 1942 and November 1943

Map of Operation Reinhard camps

Lublin/Majdanek

• large-scale forced-labor camp

•170,000 prisoners passed through the camp

• killed in gas chambers

Gas chamber used at Lublin/Majkanek

Church at Chelmno where the Jews spent their last night

Entrance to Rzuchowski Forest camp where Chelmno victims were buried

Opening of gas chamber where they poured cyclone crystals

Inside of a gas chamber where the Jews were gassed.

Cremation Pit where Jews bodies were burned

Crematory room where Jews were cremated

Where Jews got burned it crematory rooms were crowded or full