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camps were located within the ghetto bound-
aries: a camp for Gypsies, where the Nazis im-

prisoned over 5,000 Roma and Sinti from
Burgenland at the end of 1941 and beginning of

1942, and a camp for Polish children, which op-
erated from December 1942 till the end of the

war.

As early as January 1942, the deportations to
Chełmno nad Nerem (Kulmhof) began. By the

autumn of 1942, the Nazis had deported and
murdered over 70,000 people there. No one sur-

vived. The ghetto was turned into a large labour
camp. The confined district of Litzmannstadt sur-

vived until the summer of 1944 with approxi-

mately 72,000 inhabitants. It was the last large