The Nazis did not expect the majority of prisoners taken to the Belzec, Treblinka, and Sobibor extermination camps to survive more than a few hours beyond arrival.

* 1885 – Christian Wirth, commandant of Belzec extermination camp ( d. 1944 )

Romani people | Romani arrivals at the Belzec extermination camp | Belzec death camp await instructions.

* 1941 – 1, 500 Jews from Pidhaytsi ( in western Ukraine ) are sent by Nazis to Belzec extermination camp.

* 1942 – On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1, 000 Jews of Pidhaytsi ( west Ukraine ) to Belzec extermination camp.

* The Belzec extermination camp is closed and dismantled by the Nazis

A transport to Belzec extermination camp left on 31 March 1942 and deportations to Sobibor followed in May and October 1942.

Deportations from Tarnów began in June 1942, when about 13, 500 Jews were sent to the Belzec extermination camp.

Belzec, Polish spelling Bełżec, was the first of the Nazi German extermination camps created for implementing Operation Reinhard during the Holocaust.

Belzec extermination camp memorial

Belzec extermination camp museum

Eventually, the German Nazi extermination camp of Belzec consisted of two subcamps: Camp I, which included the barracks of the Ukrainians, the workshops and barracks of the Jews, the reception area with two undressing barracks, and Camp II, which contained the gas chambers and the mass graves.

fr: Camp d ' extermination de Belzec

Six extermination camps ( Auschwitz, Belzec, Chełmno, Majdanek, Sobibór and Treblinka ) were established in which the most extreme measure of the Holocaust, the mass murder of millions of Jews from Poland and other countries, was carried out between 1942 and 1944.

A ghetto of around 20, 000 people was established near the castle, and was liquidated at Belzec extermination camp over three days in August 1942.

Of these, four were extermination camps, where all new-arrivals were simply killed – the " Aktion Reinhard " camps ( Treblinka, Sobibor and Belzec ), together with Chelmno.

On October 13, 1941, Globocnik received a verbal order from Himmler to start immediate construction work on Belzec extermination camp, the first labor camp in the General Government.

The Nazis had already shipped 2500 Jews to the extermination camp at Belzec.

Some were sent to Belzec extermination camp.

Funeral pyres were used by the Nazis to cremate the bodies of 1, 500, 000 + Jews in Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka extermination camps, as opposed to the crematoriums used in other camps.

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During the Holocaust, a ghetto was created by the Germans, then most Jews were murdered at Belzec extermination camp.

* 1942 – Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland.

Karski provided his own eyewitness accounts of the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto and Belzec concentration camp.

In the course of the Holocaust, the Nazi Germans first placed the Jews in a ghetto established in the town, then exterminated them in 1942 at Belzec death camp located a few kilometers south of the town.

The first three true death camps, designed for mass killing with no legal process or pretext, were constructed and put into operation at Treblinka, Sobibór, and Belzec.

In September 1942, the Germans ordered all ghetto residents to report at Targowica Square, where they were subjected to a " Selektion " ( selection ) in which those deemed " unessential " were selected out for deportation to Belzec.

Before the war, there were 300, 000 Jews living in the region, which became the site of the Majdanek and Belzec concentration camps as well as several labour camps ( Trawniki, Poniatowa, Budzyn, Puławy, Zamość, Biała Podlaska, and the Lublin work camps Lindenstraße 7 ( Lipowa Street ), Flugplatz, and Sportplatz ) which produced military supplies for the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe ).

Only for the death toll at Belzec does Hilberg provide a precise figure, all the others are rounded.

It became standard procedure to stop deportation trains from the Reich and Slovakia in Lublin in order to select able-bodied Jews for work in the General Government ; the others were sent on to their deaths in Belzec.

In 1942 Glücks was increasingly involved in the administration of the Endlösung, supplying personnel to assist in Aktion Reinhardt ( although the death camps of Belzec, Treblinka and Sobibor were administered by SS-und Polizei-führer Odilo Globocnik of the General Government ).

Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka-The Operation Reinhard Death Camps, Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 1987.

* Arad, Yitzhak, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps ( 1999, c1987 )

* Arad, Yitzhak: Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps.

* Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: the Operation Reinhard death camps ( 1987 ) ISBN 0-253-21305-3

In 1942, the Jews that survived the starvation, disease and slave labor were taken to Belzec to be " exterminated ".

The Ghetto was liquidated between June 1942 and March 1943, with most of its inhabitants sent to Belzec extermination camp and Płaszów labor camp, and exterminated also at Auschwitz concentration camp.

In July 1940, a number of Jewish men were sent from Biała Podlaska to the forced labour camps at Belzec.

Belzec was situated in the Lublin district forty-seven miles north of the major city of Lviv ( Lvov, Lwow ), conveniently between the large Jewish populations of German-occupied southeast Poland and eastern Galicia.

* November 3: According to a book by Arad, pp. 383 – 389, The Governnment General deported 2000 Jews to Belzec from the town of Zaklików, County of Janów, District of Lublin.

While the Burggraben project was shut down by the end of the year due to its inefficiency, Belzec was re-opened in 1942 to finish part of the anti-tank ditch.

Shortly after that the first transport of Jews was sent from Lubaczów to Belzec.

He was involved in deportations to the camps of Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka.

But in the essential issue, namely that he was in Belzec and witnessed the gassing of a transport of Jews from Lwow, his testimony is fully corroborated ....

From there he was deported to Belzec, together with his family.

She was murdered by the Nazi s in 1942 in the Belzec concentration camp.

In 1942 the ghetto was liquidated and its inmates perished in the Belzec extermination camp.

It was in that capacity that he traveled to the extermination camps of Belzec and Treblinka.

While some aspects of Gerstein's report include false or exaggeratedly attributed statements to Odilo Globocnik, and inaccurate claims regarding the total number of Jews gassed at places where he was not an eyewitness, Gerstein's claim that gassing of Jews occurred at Belzec is independently corroborated by SS-Standartenführer Wilhelm Pfannenstiel's testimony given at the Belzec trials, as well as by the accounts of other witnesses that can be found in Gitta Sereny's Into That Darkness, a biography of one-time Treblinka commandant Franz Stangl.

But in the essential issue, namely that he was in Belzec and witnessed the gassing of a transport of Jews from Lwow, his testimony is fully corroborated ....