Lodz, Chelmno and Warsaw

LodzChaim Rumkowski delivering a speech in the ghetto

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Suggested Itinerary

2-day Lodz and Chelmno
Day 1: Travel out
Day 2: Lodz ghetto, Chelmno

4-day  Lodz, Chelmno and Warsaw
Day 1: Travel out
Day 2: Lodz ghetto, Chelmno
Day 3: Transfer to Warsaw
Day 4: Warsaw and ghetto, Treblinka

The first extermination camp to open was Chelmno, just over 40 miles north of the city of Lodz. Over 150,000 people were murdered there, mainly Jews from the Lodz ghetto.

Unlike most of the other Death Camps, extermination did not feature the use of permanent gas chambers, but was carried out by means of specially created gas vans pumping carbon monoxide into the interior.

A new addition to ANGLIA's holistic approach to Holocaust studies, it is now possible to visit Chelmno and the site of the Lodz ghetto, the second largest ghetto in the Nazi empire.

This tour can be combined with a visit to Warsaw and Treblinka, or to Krakow and Auschwitz-Birkenau.

 

Specifications/topics supported by these tours

History: OCR ‘A’ > Germany 1919-1945

AQA ‘B’ > Hitler’s Foreign Policy and the Origins of WWII

Citizenship: KS3 & KS4 > Democracy and Justice

AQA Unit 1 Citizenship Studies AS & A2 > Identity, Rights and Responsibilities


Themes 

  • The development of Nazi racial policy
  • Life under the Nazi Regime - Repression, prejudice and persecution
  • Life in the Lodz Ghetto
  • The Concentration Camp system
  • Aktion Reinhard: mass shootings and extermination camps

Combined Tours

Whilst a visit to any one of the sites associated with the Holocaust will allow students to develop their appreciation of the subject, ANGLIA is able to offer tours which combine more than one of these sites.

If you are interested in linking visits to Lodz  with Krakow (Auschwitz-Birkenau & Plaszow), Lublin (Belzec & Majdanek) or Warsaw (Treblinka & Sobibor) please contact us for further details.'