# Chełm Ghetto <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Location</td><td>Chełm, Lublin District (occupied Poland)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Chełm, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>51°08′N 23°28′E</td></tr> </table> ## Overview The Chełm Ghetto was a Nazi ghetto in the town of Chełm, in the Lublin District of the General Government (not to be confused with the Chełmno killing centre in the Warthegau). Chełm had a large pre-war Jewish community, close to half the town's population. Under German occupation the Jews were confined and used for forced labour, and the ghetto also absorbed deportees from surrounding communities. On 21–23 May 1942 (the eve of Shavuot) roughly 4,000+ Jews were deported by rail to the Sobibór extermination camp; a further Aktion on 25 October 1942 marched about 2,000 more via Włodawa to Sobibór. The ghetto was liquidated between 5 and 9 November 1942, with the remaining inhabitants sent to Sobibór; a final group of labour prisoners was deported to their deaths in January 1943. Almost the entire community was murdered. <small>Sources: Holocaust Historical Society — Chelm; Wikipedia — The Holocaust in the Lublin District; Yad Vashem deportation records (Chełm → Sobibór).</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Rechla Spitz (b.1883)]] | Died 1942 | | [[Estera Wizenberg (b.1915)]] | Died ~1942 | | [[Gecel Wizenberg (b.1907)]] | Died ~1942 | | [[Malka Wizenberg (b.1906)]] | Died 1942 | | [[Shraga Fajwel Wizenberg (b.1913)]] | Died ~1942 |