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Witold Pilecki

Witold Pilecki

The only known voluntary inmate of Auschwitz, who spent two and a half years gathering intelligence from within the camp.

8 December 1941: Murders begin at Chełmno

On 8 December 1941 the first murders were carried out at Chełmno. The Chełmno ‘killing centre’ was the first Nazi camp to be used specifically for the purpose of systematically murdering inmates, the majority of whom were Jewish.

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