Chelmno death camp : entrance to the manor house and bridge over the Ner
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Channel: Alan Heath · 2007 · Travel & Events
SEE MY HISTORY PAGE ON FACEBOOK : https://www.facebook.com/pages/Alan-Heaths-History-Page/173472422695696 A view from the bridge over the Ner river looking into the village on the escarpment above. When the manor house was built in the second part of the nineteenth century, the entrance was from here with a long path into the house which wealthy people did to give themselves a feeling of grandeur. The family that had lived here had received the land from the Tsar in thanks for military service. The family lost the land after Poland became independent and the manor house became a form of social housing although the upstairs was empty as the roof leaked and no-one could fix it. In 1941 the Nazis chose this site for a death camp which began to murder people on 8 December of that year.
