#OnThisDay 8 December 1941, murder operations began at the Chelmno death camp, and continued intermittently for over 4 years. By 1945, nearly 300,000 Jews were murdered at Chelmno alone. Chelmno was the first Nazi camp where gassing was used to murder Jews on a large-scale basis, and the first place outside the Soviet Union where Jews were slaughtered en-masse as part of the "Final Solution." Shimon Srebernik was a forced laborer in Chelmno. One day, when sorting through victims’ personal effect

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