The Kulmhof Exhibition in Berlin

We would like to inform about our exhibition titled "The Unknown Extermination Camp at Chełmno nad Nerem – History and Remembrance" prepared by A. Hojan and C. Munro in the cooperation with Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas (Berlin), PARITÄTISCHER Wohlfahrtsverband (Berlin) and Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin - Centrum Judaicum. This is the very first independent exhibition about history of first death camp - Kulmhof in Chełmno on Ner. The exhibition will be open on December 7 and will be available to visit the next day to the end of February 2012 in the Centrum Judaicum on Oranienburgerstrasse in Berlin.

From 8 December 1941 - 70 years ago - the SS murdered in Chelmno on the Ner (Chelmno nad Nerem) people by engine exhaustin the so-called "gas-vans". This day marks the beginning of the Nazi mass murder of European Jews by poison gas in the first death camp - Kulmhof. The exhibition is dedicated to this site and the unknown annihilation commemorate the more than 150,000 humann beings, including more than 2,600 Jews from Berlin. It also shows which tracks are still to be discovered today.

Curators: Dr Ingo Loose, Uwe Neumärker and Dr Ulrich Baumann
Text and translations from Polish,English and Yiddish: Dr Ingo Loose; last section by Dr Daniel Baranowski
Exhibition concept, research and current photos: Artur Hojan, Cameron Munro
Translation: Caroline Pearce
Exhibition design: Dagmar von Wilcken (F 217)

Place  of exhibition:
Neue Synagoge Berlin – Centrum Judaicum
Oranienburger Straße 28 – 30 | 10117 Berlin
S-Bhf Oranienburger Straße

The New Synagogue on Oranienburger Strasse which houses the Centrum Judaicum, is one of the most important locations and a beautiful landmark on the Berlin skyline. In 1943, the building was severely damaged in air raids, and the main chamber of the synagogue was demolished in 1958. Restoration started in the late 1980's (GDR times) and was completed early 90s but you can still see traces of war-damage even in the renovated part. The triangle between the new Synagogue, Oranienburger Strasse and Grosse Hamburger Strasse used to be the centre of Berlin's Jewish life.