Belzec extermination camp
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In 1940, the Germans established a string of labor camps along the Bug (Buh) River. Until the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Bug River formed the demarcation line between German- and Soviet-occupied Poland. The headquarters of this complex was a labor camp established on the outskirts of the village Belzec. SS officials forced Jews deported from Lublin District and other parts of the General Government to the Belzec labor camp and its subsidiary camps. There, they were forced to build fortifications and anti-tank ditches along the river. The Belzec labor camp and its subsidiaries were dismantled at the end of 1940.
Background
Belzec (English: or , Polish: [ËbÉu̯ÊÉtÍ¡s]; German: [ËbÉlzÉts]) was a Nazi German extermination camp in occupied Poland. It was built by the SS for the purpose of implementing the secretive Operation Reinhard, the plan to murder all Polish Jews, a major part of the "Final Solution", the overall Nazi effort to complete the genocide of all European Jews. Before Germany's defeat put an end to this project, more than six million Jews had been murdered in the Holocaust. The camp operated from 17 March 1942 to the end of June 1943. It was situated about 500 m (1,600 ft) south of the local railroad station of BeÅżec, in the new Lublin District of the General Government territory of German-occupied Poland.
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Notable inmates
Adolf Gimpel1875 · clarinetist- Antonina Hulles1872–1942
- Rosa Luftig1906–1940
- Haïm Hirszman1912–1946 · politician
- Berta Luftig1917–1940
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Sources
- EHRI Authority Record
- Wikidata entity
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- EHRI Authority List of Camps and Ghettos / USHMM Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos — European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) / United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)
- Wikidata (Q160143)
- Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.