Belzec Extermination Center
Belzec Extermination Center
Terry Riversong 2022
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Belzec was a mass killing center, located in eastern Poland near today's border with Ukraine. It was the first killing center to implement Operation Reinhard (three killing centers designed for mass execution of Jews by carbon monoxide). Beginning in March 1942, Jews from ghettos, and various parts of the General Government (German occupied eastern territories), were deported to Belzec, where they were killed shortly after arrival and their bodies buried. Between December 1942 and spring 1943, the bodies of the victims were exhumed and cremated and bones
crushed. The camp was then dismantled, trees were planted and a a farmhouse erected to conceal it's function.
Estimated murdered Jews between 500,000 to 600,000
Belzec Extermination Center
October 1, 2022
Entrance
Ramp Area where tracks pulled into the extermination center.
Dan Pagis ‘Written in pencil in the sealed freight car’
Fragment of the piping that carried exhaust fumes to the gas chambers of Belzec.
Names
Names of towns, villages, where people were deported from and the date
Victim Shoes
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