A granary building that was the site of a massacre at Chełmno

In 1944, Nazi German authorities reopened the Chełmno killing center. During this period, the Nazis used the granary building (seen here) to house Jewish forced laborers. On January 17, 1945, as the SS abandoned and destroyed the camp, the SS carried out a massacre of Jewish forced laborers outside the granary. Of the 47 remaining forced laborers, 45 were killed. Szymon Srebrnik survived his wounds. Mieczysław Żurawski attacked the guards with a knife and fled. The granary building was set on fire. Chełmno nad Nerem, Poland, 1945.