Nazi German extermination camp on the Ner River, a tributary of the Warta, in western Poland. It opened in December 1941 and closed in January 1945 ...
In World War II, site of the first German extermination camp, about 50 km/31 mi northeast of Bydgoszcz in western Poland. A total of about 350,000 Jews and gypsies were killed at the camp before it...
First death camp to use gassing and first place located outside Soviet territory in which Jews were systematically killed as part of “Final Solution.”