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Chełm (Polish: ⓘ; Ukrainian: Холм, romanized: Kholm; German: Cholm; Yiddish: כעלם, romanized: Khelm) is a city in southeastern Poland with 60,231 inhabitants as of December 2021. It is located to the south-east of Lublin , north of Zamość and south of Biała Podlaska , some 25 kilometres (16 miles) from the border with Ukraine .
Chełm, city, Lubelskie województwo (province), eastern Poland. The city is located on the Uherka River, a tributary of the Bug River, 15 miles (24 km) west of the Ukrainian border. Chełm received town rights in 1233, passed to Poland in 1377, and fell to Austria (1795) and then to Russia (1815).
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Mar 23, 2022 · Yes, there is a place called Chełm—located, Wikipedia tells us, “in southeastern Poland . . . some 25 kilometers from the border with Ukraine” and home to 63,949 inhabitants, who pronounce its name “Khewm.” (Yiddish speakers said “Khelem” or “Kheylem,” as do knowledgeable Jews today.)
Chełm (Ukrainian: Холм, Kholm) is a Baroque town in Lubelskie, Poland. It lies on the main Warsaw - Kyiv road and rail routes, where it is the nearest sizeable Polish town to the Ukrainian border. The border towns are Dorohusk in Poland and Yahodin (or sometimes Yagodin) in Ukraine .
Chełm Land (ziemia chełmska) and other historical lands of Poland against the background of modern administrative borders. Chełm Land was a region of the Kingdom of Poland and later of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1795). Today, the region is situated in the modern states of Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus.
The historic city of Chełm, the provincial capital in the district of Lublin on the eastern border of Poland, had a large Jewish community with a vibrant Yiddish and Hebrew culture, Jewish education and a rich religious and political life. During the Second World War the Germans conquered Chełm and murdered almost the entire Jewish community.
