This book is a comprehensive account of the Chelmno death camp. Chelmno was not only the first
Nazi death camp it also set a horrific example in establishing gas vans as the first mass use
of poison gas to kill Jews. Chris Webb and Artur Hojan cover the construction and the
development of the mass murder process as perfected by the Nazis. The story is painstakingly
told from all sides the Jewish inmates some who survived the Holocaust the perpetrators the
Polish Arbeitskommando and others.A major part of this work is the Jewish Roll of Remembrance
that includes the few survivors and the Jews deported from the Reich via the Litzmannstadt
ghetto to their deaths in the gas vans. The book is richly illustrated with historical and
contemporary photographs and documents.
