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unusual facts about Chełmno


Prussian estates

They were at first composed of officials of six big cities of the region; Braunsberg (Braniewo), Culm (Chełmno), Elbing (Elbląg), Danzig (Gdańsk), Königsberg (Królewiec) and Thorn (Toruń).


Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church

The Przechówko church in West Prussia, the mother church of Alexanderwohl, was composed of Mennonites who settled near Schwetz and Culm on the Vistula River.

Confederation of Cologne

Since this peace was not enforceable the cities of Lübeck, Rostock, Stralsund, Wismar, Kulm, Thorn, Elbing, Kampen, Harderwyk, Elburg, Amsterdam and Briel signed the confederatio for war against Danmark and Norway.

Sianowo

His and many other testimonies led Chełmno Kazimierz Bishop Józef Kowalski to address a request (1965) to Pope Paul VI to crown the miraculous statue as the Queen of the Kashubs.

Siemowit II of Masovia

As a potential successor Casimir III the Great on the throne of Poland, Siemowit II agreed to waive the rights of Chełmno and Eastern Pomerania.

Simon Srebnik

He testified again about Chełmno in the 1961 trial of Adolph Eichmann in Jerusalem, and in the Chełmno trials in Germany (1962–1965) of the former SS men from the SS Special Detachment Kulmhof.


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