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1114:, his eyes glued to a window in the wooden door. Furious, Captain Wirth lashes the Ukrainian assisting Hackenholt twelve, thirteen times, in the face. After 2 hours and 49 minutes—the stopwatch recorded it all—the diesel started. Up to that moment, the people in those four crowded chambers were still alive, four times 750 persons in four times 45 cubic meters. Another 25 minutes elapsed. Many were already dead, that could be seen through the small window because an electric lamp inside lit up the chamber for a few moments. After 28 minutes, only a few were still alive. Finally, after 32 minutes, all were dead ... Dentists hammered out gold teeth, bridges and crowns. In the midst of them stood Captain Wirth. He was in his element, and showing me a large can full of teeth, he said: "See for yourself the weight of that gold! It's only from yesterday and the day before. You can't imagine what we find every day—dollars, diamonds, gold. You'll see for yourself!" 56: 483: 1384: 1214:. Wirth's house and the neighbouring SS building, which had been the property of the Polish Railway before the war, were not demolished. After locals started digging for valuables in Bełżec, the Germans installed a permanent guard so that their mass murder would not come to light. SS personnel with work commandos turned the camp into a fake farm with one Ukrainian SS guard assigned to settle there permanently with his family. This model for guarding and disguising murder sites was also adopted at the 1143: 1402: 1362: 1348: 1171: 1157: 804: 747: 978: 1487:. The team identified the railway sidings and remains of a number of buildings. They also found 33 mass graves, the largest of which had an area of 480 m (5,200 sq ft) and was 4.8 m (16 ft) deep. The total volume of these mass graves was estimated at 21,000 m (0.74 million cu ft). Air photo analysis suggests that these 33 mass graves were not the only graves at Bełżec extermination camp. 67: 599:. The installation, resembling a railway transit point for the purpose of forced labour, was finished before Christmas. It featured insulated barracks for showering among several other structures. Some local men were released. The SS completed the work in February 1942 by fitting in the tank engine and the exhaust piping systems for gassing. The trial killings were performed in early March. 1423:
investigation in 1947, the site itself continued to be neglected and memory of the site was suppressed as very few of the camp's victims were Polish, and few of the camp's primarily Jewish victims survived. Beginning in the second half of the 1950s the pursuit by Germany itself of the German perpetrators revived interest in the site. The Soviet trials of Russian camp personnel, held in
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of Operation Reinhard. There were many technical difficulties with the early attempts at mass extermination. The gassing installation was imperfect and usually only one or two rooms were working, causing a backlog. In the first three months, 80,000 people were murdered and buried in pits covered with a shallow layer of earth. The victims were Jews deported from the
724:' postwar affidavit indicates that most probably it was a petrol engine with a system of pipes delivering exhaust fumes into the gas chambers. For very small transports of Jews and Gypsies over a short distance, a minimised version of the gas van technology was also used in Bełżec. The T-4 participant and first operator of the gas chambers, SS- 1227: 1470:. Her mother, Ethel Helfgott, was among the victims in Bełżec. Anita Ekstein has led many groups of students on educational trips to Poland where she shares her Holocaust story. She first visited Bełżec in 2005, a year after the new memorial opened, and discovered her mother's name inscribed on the memorial wall on Mother's Day. 1454:, an American Holocaust survivor whose own parents were murdered in Bełżec, raising approximately 5 million dollars with the help of the Polish government and the American Jewish Committee. Another prominent Holocaust survivor with a connection to Bełżec is philanthropist Anita Ekstein, former national chair of 867:
told him: "trains filled with Jews pass almost daily through the railway yards and leave immediately on the way to the camp. They return swept clean most often the same evening." The last transport of Jews arrived at Bełżec on 11 December 1942. The buried remains often swelled in the heat as a result
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accommodations with kitchen as well as sorting and packing yard for victims possessions. Dismantled barracks can still be seen surrounded by walking sand. The railway unloading platform, with two parallel ramps, marked with red arrow. A smaller arrow shows the holding pen for Jews still waiting to be
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In the 1960s, the grounds of the former Bełżec camp were fenced off. The first monuments were erected, although the area did not correspond to the actual size of the camp during its operation due to lack of proper evidence and modern forensic research. Some commercial development took place in areas
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Jewish Committee discussed the continuing plunder of the site. In 1945 Szmul Pelc, the chair of the committee of the Jewish Committee, was murdered by local graverobbers. Investigations of grave digging continued through the late 1950s. While Lublin District Commission published the results of their
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The wooden gas chambers—which were built with double walls that were insulated by earth packed between them—were disguised as the shower barracks, so that the victims would not realise the true purpose of the facility. The gassing itself, which took about 30 minutes, was conducted by Hackenholt with
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men that they had arrived at a transit camp. To ready themselves for the communal shower, women and children were separated from men. The disrobed new arrivals were forced to run along a fenced-off path to the gas chambers, leaving them no time to absorb where they were. The process was conducted as
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camp meant to circumvent the problems of supply, and instead, rely on a system of extermination based on ordinary and readily available killing agents. For economic and practical reasons, Wirth had almost the same carbon monoxide gas used in T-4, generated with the torque of a large engine. Although
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books of Jewish ghettos, which were not guaranteed to give the exact estimates of the numbers of deportees. He also relied on partial German railway documentation, from which the number of trains could be gleaned. Some assumptions had to be made about the number of persons per each Holocaust train.
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records were notoriously incomplete as revealed by postwar analysis by the Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes against the Polish Nation. The difference between the "low-end" figure and other estimates can be explained by the lack of exact and detailed sources on the deportations
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revealed details of the mass murder by examining preserved bodies. The Germans attempted to use the commission's results to drive a wedge between the Allies. All corpses buried at Bełżec were secretly exhumed and then gradually cremated on long open-air pyres, part of the country-wide plan known as
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The history of Bełżec can be divided into two (or three) periods of operation. The first phase, from 17 March to the end of June 1942, was marked by the existence of smaller gas chambers housed in barracks constructed of planks and insulated with sand and rubber. Bełżec was the first killing centre
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post-office vehicle with the help of a local craftsman into a small gas van. The killing process, using the lethal carbon monoxide, often failed to be completed quickly, inflicting horrific suffering on the victims as they suffocated to death. The guards jokingly referred to the killing site as the
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an official wartime report in which Lieutenant Westermann, a German police officer in the reserve, describes the deportation of 8,000 Jews from the Eastern Galician towns ... in a single (thirty-wagon train) ... on September 10, after more than three days on this journey without food or water ...
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All graves discovered by archaeologists contained large amounts of human cremation remains, and 10 graves also contained unburned human remains, which Prof. Kola described as follows: "Deposition of corpses in the water-bearing layers or in very damp structure of the ground just above that layer,
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Following the collapse of the Communist dictatorship in 1989, the situation began to change. As the number of visitors to Poland interested in Holocaust sites increased, more of them came to Bełżec. In the 1990s the camp appeared badly neglected, even though it was cleaned by students from Bełżec
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comes up. I can see he is afraid because I am present at a disaster. Yes, I see it all and I wait. My stopwatch showed it all, 50 minutes, 70 minutes, and the diesel did not start. The people wait inside the gas chambers. In vain. They can be heard weeping "like in the synagogue", says Professor
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Polish-language sign. Reads: "Attention! All belongings must be handed in at the counter except for money, documents and other valuables, which you must keep with you. Shoes should be tied together in pairs and placed in the area marked for shoes. Afterward, one must go completely naked to the
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school. In the late 1990s extensive investigations were carried out on the camp grounds to determine precisely the camp's extent and provide greater understanding of its operation. Buildings constructed after the war on the camp grounds were removed. In 2004, Bełżec became a new branch of the
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and the highway between Lublin-Stadt and Lemberg. The northern boundary of the planned killing centre consisted of an anti-tank trench constructed a year earlier. The ditch, excavated originally for military purposes was likely to serve as the first mass grave. Globocnik brought in
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and Peter Witte, gave an estimate of 480,000 to 540,000. Michael Tregenza stated that it would have been possible to have buried up to one million victims on the site although the true number of people murdered is probably around half that number.
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work-details. The workshops for the Jewish prisoners and the barracks for the Ukrainian guards were separated from the "processing" zone behind an embankment of the old Otto Line with the barbed wire on top. Most Jews from the corpse-unit (the
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The second phase of extermination began in July 1942, when new gas chambers were built of brick and mortar on a lightweight foundation, thus enabling the facility to "process" Jews of the two largest agglomerations nearby including the
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less than a hundred kilometres away, of whom 1,450 were already dead on arrival from suffocation and thirst. The remaining new arrivals were marched naked in batches to the gas chambers; beaten with whips to squeeze tighter inside.
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by three months. The first steps were taken between mid-September and mid-October 1941, and the construction began around 1 November. The site near Bełżec was chosen for several reasons: it was situated on the border between the
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became known, thanks to his official postwar testimony. The lack of viable witnesses able to testify about the camp's operation is the primary reason why Bełżec is little known, despite the victim number count. Israeli historian
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made from rail tracks, splashed with petrol and burned over wood. The bones were collected and crushed. The last period of camp's operation continued until June 1943 when the area was ploughed over, and disguised as a farm.
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headed the ominous German Society for Race Hygiene (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Rassenhygiene) as Professor of Hygiene at the University of Marburg in Germany, leading to the development of T4 programme some time later.
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From late 1997 until early 1998, a thorough archaeological survey of the site was conducted by a team led by two Polish scientists including Andrzej Kola, director of the Underwater Archaeological Department at the
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were predetermined with the carrying capacity of each trainset set up at 50 boxcars, each loaded with 50 prisoners, which was routinely disregarded by the SS cramming trains up to 200% capacity for the same price.
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In the last phase of the camp operations, all prior mass graves were unearthed by a mechanical digger. It was the result of direct orders from the Nazi leadership (possibly from Himmler), soon after the Soviet
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communiqués detailing the number of trains arriving at Operation Reinhard death camps augmented by the demographic information regarding the number of people deported from each ghetto, were published by the
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or Hackenholt Foundation named after the SS man who designed it. Until December 1942, at least 350,000 to 400,000 Jews were murdered in the new gas chambers. One Wehrmacht sergeant at the train station in
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since 1940 in common with almost all of their German staff thereafter. Wirth had the leading position as the supervisor of six extermination hospitals in the Reich; Hering was the non-medical chief of the
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suggesting their common origin. Other sources, like Westermann's report, contain the exact data about the number of deported persons, but only estimates of the numbers of those who died in transit.
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for gassing in late June 1943. They were told that they were being evacuated to Germany. Any equipment that could be reused was taken by the German and Ukrainian personnel to the concentration camp
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personnel in the process. Only two months later, on 17 March 1942, the daily gassing operations at Bełżec extermination camp began with the T4 leadership brought in from Germany under the guise of
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hotel while in the French custody, Gerstein described his visit to Belzec on 18 or 19 August 1942. He witnessed there the unloading of 45 cattle cars crowded with 6,700 Jews deported from the
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became broadly available later on, Wirth decided against it. Zyklon B was produced by a private firm for both Birkenau, and Majdanek nearby, but their infrastructure differed. Bełżec was an
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branches: Camp 1, which included the victims' unloading area with two undressing barracks further up; as well as Camp 2, which contained the gas chambers and the mass graves dug by the
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Kopciowski, A. "Anti-Jewish Incidents in the Lublin Region in the Early Years after World War II." Zaglada Zydów. Studia i Materialy (Holocaust. Studies and Materials) 3 (2007): 188"
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quickly as possible amid constant screaming by the Germans. At times, a handful of Jews were selected at the ramp to perform all the manual work involved with extermination.
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in late January 1942 by the leading proponents of gassing (who were unaware of Bełżec's existence), including Wilhelm Dolpheid, Ludwig Losacker, Helmut Tanzmann and Governor
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and the escape of gases. The surface layer of soil split. In October 1942, the exhumation and burning of all corpses was ordered to cover up the crime on direct orders from
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It is believed that some 50 Jews might have escaped from Bełżec and only seven were still alive at the war's end. An unknown number of prisoners jumped out from the moving
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around August 1943 and murdered on arrival. "In our view," wrote Pohl & Witte in 2001, "there is no evidence to justify a figure higher than that of 600,000 victims."
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the Ukrainian guards and a Jewish aide. Removing the bodies from the gas chambers, burying them, sorting and repairing the victims' clothing for shipping was performed by
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Chris Webb, Victor Smart & Carmelo Lisciotto (2009), The Bełżec Death Camp. Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team (Internet Archive). Retrieved 10 May 2015.
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who was a civil engineer by profession and the camp construction expert in the SS. Work had commenced in early November 1941, using local builders overseen by a squad of
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Symbolic "death road" (portion of the memorial in Bełżec). Underground passage built in place of former "Sluice" into the gas chambers, evokes the feelings of no escape.
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Browning, Christopher R. (1994). "The Nazi Decision to Commit Mass Murder: Three Interpretations: The Euphoria of Victory and the Final Solution: Summer-Fall 1941".
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There were only two Jewish escapees from the camp who shared their testimony with the Polish Main Commission for the Investigation of Nazi German Crimes. They were
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A Report on the 1959–63 West German Police Search for Lorenz Hackenholt, the Gas Chamber Expert of the Aktion Reinhard Extermination Camps. Mazel on-line library.
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accepted 600,000 as minimum, and the sum in his table of Bełżec deportations by the city exceeded 500,000. Józef Marszałek calculated 500,000. British historian
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Portion of the memorial in Bełżec. Cemented rails built in place of the original unloading ramp, lead in all directions from which the Jews were brought in.
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formed after Operation Barbarossa. It could "process" the Jews of both regions. The ease of transportation was secured by the railroad junction at nearby
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Between 430,000 and 500,000 Jews are believed to have been murdered by the SS at Bełżec. It was the third-deadliest extermination camp, exceeded only by
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formerly belonging to it. Also, its remote location on the Polish–Soviet border meant that few people visited the site before the
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Witte, Peter; and Tyas, Stephen (2001), "A New Document on the Deportation and Murder of Jews during 'Einsatz Reinhardt 1942'",
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Location of Bełżec (lower centre) on the map of German extermination camps marked with black and white skulls. Borders of the
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Fahlbusch, Jan H., "Im Zentrum des Massenmordes. Ernst Zierke im Vernichtungslager Bełżec", in: Wojciech Lenarczyk (Ed.),
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Wirth developed his method on the basis of experience he had gained in the fixed gas chambers of Aktion T4. Even though
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writes that Belzec "was perhaps the place most representative of the totality and finality of the Nazi plans for Jews".
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Report on the Archeological Investigation at the Site of the Former NAZI Extermination Camp in Belzec, Poland, 1997–98
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Obóz zagłady w Bełżcu w relacjach ocalonych i zeznaniach polskich świadków (Testimonies of survivors and witnesses).
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in Munich against eight former SS members of the extermination camp personnel. The accused were set free except for
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with translation by Margaret M. Rubel. In 1960, Reder's testimony became part of the German preparations for the
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Nationalsozialistische Vernichtungslager im Spiegel deutscher Strafprozesse. Bełżec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Chelmno
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Pohl, Dieter; Witte, Peter (2001). "The number of victims of belżec extermination camp: A faulty reassessment".
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with the difficulty of air penetration, because of the depth, caused the changes of the deposited bodies into
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of 22,000 Polish soldiers was discovered in Russia. At Katyn, the German-led exhumations by the international
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The field of crushed stone serves as grave marker; the entire perimeter contains human ashes mixed with sand.
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and its vicinity. The original three gas chambers were found insufficient for completing their purpose.
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on the way to the camp, at their own peril. The railway embankments used to be lined with bodies.
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Belzec extermination camp memorial. During the construction of the Mausoleum trees planted by the
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once gave an estimate of about 800,000 based on his investigations at the site. German historians
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Historia Niemieckiego Obozu Zagłady w Bełżcu [History of the Belzec extermination camp]
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Das Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslager Majdanek: Funktionswandel im Kontext der "Endlösung"
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Hackenholt was making great efforts to get the engine running. But it doesn't go. Captain
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World Without Civilization: Mass Murder and the Holocaust, History and Analysis, Volume 1
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The bricks-and-mortar building with the new gas chambers had six cubicles, each about 25
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A detailed description of how the gas chambers at Belzec were managed came in 1945 from
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The "Final Solution": Operation Reinhard – The Camps of Belzec, Sobibor & Treblinka
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Fritz Jirmann (Irmann) standing at the podium with a loudspeaker, and were told by the
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KZ-Verbrechen. Beiträge zur Geschichte der nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager
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in 1943, he was transferred by Globocnik to serve along with him in his hometown of
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in the East), had proven insufficient for the projected number of victims from the
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Grave robbing at the site resumed after the German guard fled for the approaching
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Rudolf Reder summarised his account of the Bełżec camp imprisonment in the book
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The "Good Old Days" – The Holocaust as Seen by its Perpetrators and Bystanders
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of eight former SS staff of Bełżec extermination camp in the mid-1960s, Munich
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and the return of democracy. It was largely forgotten and poorly maintained.
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Bełżec mausoleum. Unloading ramp and cremation rails (historical artefacts).
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personnel, held in Poland and in Germany, decided almost twenty years apart
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and Chaim Hirszman. While Reder submitted a deposition in January 1946 in
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sent to Berlin on 11 January 1943 by Operation Reinhard's Chief of Staff
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survived the defeat of Germany, but disappeared in 1945 without a trace.
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Bełżec "processing" zone consisted of two sections surrounded by a high
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A Reassessment: Resettlement Transports to Belzec, March–December 1942
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Sentence by the First Munich District Court (Belzec-Prozess – Urteil,
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statistics. Thus, Y. Arad writes, that he had to rely, in part, on
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The Rabka Four: Instruments of Genocide and Grand Larceny (Poland)
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The historian Eugeniusz Szrojt in his 1947 study published by the
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Main Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland
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was brought into the area in April 1940 for the construction of
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Bełżec extermination camp SS staff, 1942. from right to left:
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Biuletyn Głównej Komisji Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Polsce
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in the American zone, and died in autumn 1945 in a hospital.
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Perpetrators, participants, organizations, and collaborators
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before they were posted as "Hiwis" (German abbreviation for
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whilst travelling in an open-top car in what is now western
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prisoners who performed the clean-up operation departed to
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Harran, Marilyn, ed. (2000). "1942: The Final Solution".
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The crucial piece of evidence came from the declassified
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International Youth Meeting Center in Oświęcim/Auschwitz
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reached Belzec, 2,000 of the 8,000 deportees were dead .
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Martin Gilbert, Peter Longerich, Max Freiherr Du Prel.
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made at the request of the Bełżec Mayor, circa 1971.
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there, killing up to 5,000 prisoners and sending 69
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The following month he was killed 5412:Resistance, victims, documentation and technical 2943:International Katyn Commission (30 April 1943). 2911: 2909: 2907: 2905: 2903: 2894: 2837: 2825: 2448: 2327: 2279: 1051:collaborators in all major killing sites of the 1035:, all of them underwent special training at the 949:. After the camp's closure, his successor there 3383: 3381: 3379: 3336: 3334: 3125:, Yizkor Book Project. Retrieved 9 August 2013. 2223: 2221: 2219: 2217: 2215: 2023: 2021: 1754: 1752: 1750: 1530:. Following the war's end, Hirszman had joined 1100: 504:(SS) in the construction of anti-tank ditches ( 3582:"Bełżec. Author/Creator: Reder, Rudolf, 1881–" 3544:"Obóz zagłady w Bełżcu (Death camp in Bełżec)" 3428:. Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku. 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Oxford University Press. pp. 22–26. 2725:: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( 2502: 2500: 2464: 2462: 2460: 2444: 2442: 2363:. Publications International. p. 308. 2257:. Annefrank.dk. 26 May 1945. Archived from 1893: 1891: 708:arriving at the new railway approach ramp. 602:The "Final Solution" was formulated at the 311: 276: 5966: 5904: 5890: 5882: 5704: 5599: 5404: 5390: 5382: 5097: 4502: 4485: 4471: 4463: 4064: 4045: 4031: 4023: 4019: 3914: 3900: 3892: 3313:. Columbia University Press. p. 217. 3197:: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( 2586:"Risiera di San Sabba. History and Museum" 2171:. Cambridge University Press. p. 74. 2059:. Königshausen & Neumann. p. 52. 1549:, a Holocaust survivor who studied at the 38: 3668:. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 3499:Alex Bay,'The Reconstruction of Belzec', 3157: 3085:Odilo Globocnik, Hitler's Man in the East 1993: 1991: 1989: 1987: 1985: 1983: 1981: 1979: 1977: 389:. The burning of exhumed corpses on five 27:Nazi German death camp in occupied Poland 3742:; Dressen, Willi; Riess, Volker (1991). 2421: 2419: 2417: 931:San Sabba concentration and transit camp 516:project was abandoned with the onset of 6109: 6008:Extraordinary (Soviet) State Commission 3629:Ernst Klee, Willi Dreßen, Volker Rieß: 3263:newspaper (BI) on behalf of the exiled 2559:"Belzec – the house of Christian Wirth" 2409:sketch by Jan Krupa and Bronisław Ragan 1688: 1622: 960:temporarily until the massacres of the 467:of the German strategic plan codenamed 5991:Polish, East German, and Soviet trials 5351:Lithuanian Auxiliary Police Battalions 3190: 2865:. Spiderwize Publishing. p. 237. 2718: 2707:(in Polish). Trawniki official website 2168:The Extermination of the European Jews 2109: 2028:Robert Rozett; Shmuel Spector (2013). 1458:Canada. Anita Ekstein was born in the 1009:(leader of the SS guard platoon), was 3765:. Museum and Memorial Site in Bełżec. 2699:Mgr Stanisław Jabłoński (1927–2002). 2565:from the original on 17 November 2021 1371:were removed and only the oaks, that 1330:The Höfle's numbers were repeated in 890:in Berlin. The bodies were placed on 410:survived World War II; and only 332: 7: 6167:German extermination camps in Poland 3719:The Destruction of the European Jews 3633:S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt, 1988, 3059:The Destruction of the European Jews 2916:Jacek Małczyński (19 January 2009). 2890: 2813: 2671: 2629: 1848:"Belzec Death Camp Memorial, Poland" 1795:Decyzja o podjęciu akcji 'Reinhardt' 1695: 1671:at face value. —from "End Notes" by 5912:Aftermath, trials and commemoration 3923:Holocaust in German-occupied Poland 3883:Concentration camps of Nazi Germany 3863:Yad Vashem – About the Holocaust – 2192:Kenneth McVay, Yad Vashem (2015) . 1021:Belzec camp guards included German 486:Deportation of Jews to Bełżec from 6177:World War II sites of Nazi Germany 6073:Polish Righteous Among the Nations 3797:Bełżec: Stepping Stone to Genocide 2949:Transcript, Smolensk 30 April 1943 2686:"Holocaust Encyclopedia: Trawniki" 1553:. It was reprinted in 1999 by the 1462:area and was hidden as a child by 1431:in the early 1960s soon followed. 494:In the territory of the so-called 471:against the Soviet advance beyond 25: 5755:Special Prosecution Book – Poland 3302:For the Westermann's Report, see 2253:Der Gerstein-Bericht im NS-Archiv 1824:. Aktion Reinhard. Archived from 997:Only seven former members of the 937:to Auschwitz. Wirth received the 698:before December 1941 (and by the 124:Annihilation of Europe's Jews in 6162:1943 disestablishments in Poland 6124: 6112: 5932:Population transfers (1944–1946) 4981:Ferdinand von Sammern-Frankenegg 3814:, 2nd ed., dtv, München 1978, . 3735:. Holocaust Controversies, 2011. 3550:. Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku ( 2786:. Lexington Books. p. 274. 1929:"Belzec Death Camp: Remember Me" 1871:"Holocaust: The Ignored Reality" 1869:Snyder, Timothy (16 July 2009). 1600:List of Nazi concentration camps 1407:Belzec extermination camp museum 1400: 1382: 1360: 1346: 1324:Deutsche Reichsbahn calculations 1169: 1155: 1141: 1001:were indicted 20 years later in 433:southeastern part of the country 295: 260: 215:17 March 1942 – end of June 1943 54: 6035:Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum 5947:Anti-Jewish violence, 1944–1946 3852:, Vol. 15, No. 3, Winter 2001, 3400:(Internet Archive 2009 capture) 3353:(Internet Archive 2009 capture) 3031:Spector, Robert Melvin (2005). 2895:Klee, Dressen & Riess (1991 2701:"Hitlerowski obóz w Trawnikach" 1555:Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum 1202:The last train with 300 Jewish 610:. Dolpheid negotiated with the 5363:Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118 5339:36th Estonian Police Battalion 3849:Holocaust and Genocide Studies 3146:Holocaust and Genocide Studies 2838:Klee, Dressen & Riess 1991 2826:Klee, Dressen & Riess 1991 2449:Klee, Dressen & Riess 1991 2328:Klee, Dressen & Riess 1991 2280:Klee, Dressen & Riess 1991 2089:. Cambridge University Press. 528:-and-Police Leader of Lublin, 1: 6152:1942 establishments in Poland 6030:Monument to the Ghetto Heroes 5860:Human medical experimentation 3607:Alan Elsner (29 March 2010). 2330:, pp. 230–237, 241, 296. 2031:Encyclopedia of the Holocaust 1281:This document, the so-called 909:The camp's first commandant, 742:Concealment of camp's purpose 672:Brandenburg Euthanasia Centre 617:in Berlin for the use of the 510:transitory Nazi-Soviet border 64:during deportation to Belzec 6172:World War II sites in Poland 3580:SearchWorks catalog (2015). 3512:Piotrowski, Tadeusz (2007). 3393:Camp history and photographs 3346:Camp history and photographs 3214:East European Jewish Affairs 2855:"Appendix 5: Rudolf Reder's 2532:HolocaustResearchProject.org 2390:Testimony of Bronisław Ragan 1759:The Holocaust Encyclopedia. 1375:the genocide, were retained. 958:Poniatowa concentration camp 666:in Saxony as well as at the 664:Sonnenstein gassing facility 459:against Poland. Originally, 207:1 November 1941 – March 1942 6065:Righteous Among the Nations 5952:Ministry of Public Security 5331:Belarusian Auxiliary Police 3941:Related articles by country 3265:Polish government in London 2165:Gerlach, Christian (2016). 1954:Silberklang, David (2013). 759:fence camouflaged with cut 657:, had been involved in the 465:military defence facilities 6193: 5977:Frankfurt Auschwitz trials 5359:Ukrainian Auxiliary Police 3518:. McFarland. p. 131. 3181:Tregenza, Michael (1998), 3087:. McFarland. p. 400. 3079:Joseph Poprzeczny (2004). 2880:– via JewishGen.org. 2593:With Selected Bibliography 2055:Schwindt, Barbara (2005). 1960:. Yad Vashem. p. 16. 1585:Chełmno extermination camp 1536:Stalinist regime in Poland 1307:Sobibor extermination camp 1261:gave a figure of 550,000. 1236:Polish government-in-exile 1208:Sobibor extermination camp 1062: 902: 696:Chełmno extermination camp 553: 443:to the southeast (German: 29: 6147:Belzec extermination camp 5881: 5750:Sobibor perpetrator album 5381: 5335:Estonian Auxiliary Police 4462: 4445:Human medical experiments 4022: 4018: 3929: 3810:Rückerl, Adalbert (ed.), 3226:10.1080/13501670108577932 3104:– via Google Books. 2339:Michael Tregenza (2000), 2034:. Routledge. p. 47. 1524:anti-communist resistance 1299:Deutsche Reichsbahn (DRG) 1218:and Sobibor death camps. 1133:Closure and dismantlement 1085:during the Holocaust. In 1037:Trawniki SS camp division 668:Hadamar Euthanasia Centre 659:forced euthanasia program 453:German zone of occupation 365:. The camp operated from 353:, the plan to murder all 53: 46: 5998:Auschwitz trial (Poland) 5343:Latvian Auxiliary Police 5076:Karl Eberhard Schöngarth 4578:Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger 3255:Polish Underground State 2766:Holocaust Encyclopedia, 2200:. Jewish Virtual Library 2081:Browning, Christopher R. 1011:brought to trial in 1964 999:SS-Sonderkommando Bełżec 923:German takeover of Italy 921:till the end. After the 577:District and the German 143:(German-occupied Poland) 6088:Garden of the Righteous 5840:Identification in camps 5833:Technical and logistics 5279:Order Police battalions 3789:. Retrieved 9 May 2015ł 3269:Grzegorz Mazur (2013). 2360:The Holocaust Chronicle 1715:. Shoah Resource Center 1393:of the Belzec mausoleum 1045:"those willing to help" 1029:Soviet prisoners of war 741: 738:Hackenholt Foundation. 556:The Holocaust in Poland 477:Soviet invasion of 1939 455:in accordance with the 357:, a major part of the " 196:(Aug. 1942 – June 1943) 190:(Dec. 1941 – Aug. 1942) 48:Nazi extermination camp 5501:Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 4966:Heinrich Klaustermeyer 3795:O'Neil, Robin (2009), 3081:"Notes to Chapter VII" 2469:Andrzej Kola (2015) . 2251:"The Gerstein Report ( 2231:. Deathcamps.org. 2014 1898:Bergen, Doris (2009). 1820:ARC (26 August 2006). 1286: 1243: 1130: 1005:. Of these, just one, 994: 817: 752: 520:. On 13 October 1941, 491: 444: 429:Second Polish Republic 387:German-occupied Poland 345:. It was built by the 220:Number of gas chambers 74:Second Polish Republic 70: 6040:Majdanek State Museum 5173:Karl-Friedrich Höcker 4077:Auschwitz II-Birkenau 3552:Majdanek State Museum 3484:"March of the Living" 3452:"March of the Living" 3260:Biuletyn Informacyjny 2945:"Commission Findings" 2526:SJ H.E.A.R.T (2007). 2296:Jack Fischel (1998). 2124:German Studies Review 1822:"Belzec Camp History" 1645:Before World War II, 1593:by Chełmno prisoner, 1474:Archeological studies 1445:Majdanek State Museum 1280: 1229: 1027:and up to 120 former 980: 903:Further information: 806: 749: 485: 473:their common frontier 105:50.37167°N 23.45750°E 69: 5517:Mordechai Anielewicz 5228:Elisabeth Volkenrath 5113:Jenny-Wanda Barkmann 4749:Arthur Liebehenschel 4674:Hermine Braunsteiner 4618:Arthur Seyss-Inquart 3159:10.1093/hgs/15.3.468 2982:on 30 September 2012 2780:David Cymet (2012). 2768:"Belzec: Chronology" 2740:Yahil, Leni (1991). 2573:– via YouTube. 1933:Alphabetical Listing 1551:Academy of Fine Arts 1033:Operation Barbarossa 915:Lublin airfield camp 875:SS-Obergruppenführer 568:preceded the actual 518:Operation Barbarossa 461:Jewish forced labour 337:) was a Nazi German 334:[ˈbɛu̯ʐɛt͡s] 175:SS-Totenkopfverbände 6055:March of the Living 5927:Holocaust survivors 5791:Vrba–Wetzler report 5567:Alexander Pechersky 5527:Mordechai Tenenbaum 4976:Alexander Palfinger 4799:Johann Schwarzhuber 4359:Międzyrzec Podlaski 4338:Lviv pogroms (1941) 4239:Sonderaktion Krakau 3432:on 13 February 2011 3275:Essays and Articles 2674:, pp. 52, 177. 2632:, pp. 371–372. 2602:on 7 September 2012 2595:: 3. 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Index

Belzec
Bełżec (village)
Nazi extermination camp

Lublin District

Second Polish Republic
Coordinates
50°22′18″N 23°27′27″E / 50.37167°N 23.45750°E / 50.37167; 23.45750
the Holocaust
Bełżec
General Government
Richard Thomalla
Lorenz Hackenholt
SS-Totenkopfverbände
Christian Wirth
Gottlieb Hering
Rudolf Reder
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/ˈbɛl.ʒɛts/
[ˈbɛu̯ʐɛt͡s]
extermination camp
occupied Poland
SS
Operation Reinhard
Polish Jews
Final Solution
the Holocaust
Bełżec
Lublin District

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