Roztocze region. During World War II, the village was the site of the Nazi German Belzec extermination camp. Bełżec was first mentioned in a document from...

northwest of Bełżec, and Lwów to the southeast (German: Lemberg, now Lviv, Ukraine) with the largest Jewish populations in the region. Bełżec fell within...

"Righteous from Bełżec" by Antoni Madejski. Cecylia and Maciej Brogowski German Nazi extermination camp SS-Sonderkommando Belzec in Bełżec German retribution...

Zagóra [zaˈɡura] is a part of the village of Bełżec in the administrative district of Gmina Bełżec, within Tomaszów Lubelski County, Lublin Voivodeship...

their dissatisfaction with what was going on in Bełżec." Rudolf Reder, one of only two survivors of Bełżec, wrote of Hering's role in the killing of Jews...

48 km (30 mi) northwest of the city of Łódź. Belzec (March 1942 – June 1943). Located near the village of Bełżec, approximately 114 km (71 mi) southeast of...

Thomalla was in charge of construction for the Operation Reinhard death camps Bełżec, Sobibor and Treblinka during the Holocaust in Poland. Born in Annahof in...

secret extermination camps set up for Operation Reinhard; the other two were Bełżec and Sobibór. All three were equipped with gas chambers disguised as shower...

Gmina Bełżec is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Tomaszów Lubelski County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. Its seat is the village of Bełżec...

Chyże [ˈxɨʐɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bełżec, within Tomaszów Lubelski County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies...

poison gas in extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, and Chełmno in occupied Poland. Separate Nazi persecutions killed...

Smoliska [smɔˈliska] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bełżec, within Tomaszów Lubelski County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland...

Szalenik-Kolonia [ʂaˈlɛnik kɔˈlɔɲa] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bełżec, within Tomaszów Lubelski County, Lublin Voivodeship, in...

in Sokal. On September 17, 1942, 2,000 Jews from Sokal were deported to Bełżec extermination camp. There was a severe water shortage in the Sokal ghetto...

of Bełżec extermination camp, he applied lessons learned there to Sobibor. Thomalla allotted a much larger area for Sobibor than he had for Bełżec, allowing...

primary purpose. They took an active role in the executions of Jews at Bełżec, Sobibor, Treblinka II, Warsaw (three times), Częstochowa, Lublin, Lvov...

perish at Bełżec during the liquidation of yet another Jewish ghetto in German-occupied Poland. (Winer, however, was later murdered in Belzec.) In June...

and their three children lived in the village of Bełżec. The Belzec extermination camp was located near the village. The Brogowskis could see Jews being...

retaliation for these attacks, on 16 June on the Bełżec-Rawa Ruska railway section near the village of Zatyle, a 20-strong Ukrainian subunit stopped a...

German food company based in Hanover Belses, a village in Scotland Bełżec extermination camp and Bełżec town, in Poland Bolsena, a place in Italy El Bolsón...

Perpetrators and Bystanders, p. 290. ISBN 1-56852-133-2. Yitzhak Arad: Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: the Operation Reinhard death camps, p. 182. Bloomington:...

in Prokocim. On 5 June 1942, an additional 4,000 Jews were deported to Bełżec extermination camp in a similar way. On 13 March and 14 March 1943, the...

Nazi Germans into the newly formed Gorlice Ghetto and then murdered at Belzec. On 16 January 1945, the Red Army liberated Gorlice. When Gorlice was first...

the Aktion Reinhard camps—three extermination camps—to be constructed at Bełżec, Sobibór, and Treblinka. Initially the victims were killed with gas vans...

first two extermination camps of Operation Reinhard in General Government – Bełżec and Sobibor – were already gassing trainloads of Jews from all over Europe...

the Polish villages of Tarnoszyn, Posady and Podlody in the Tomaszów County, as well as the villages of Ostrów and Chlewiska near Bełżec, in the forest...

killings of Jews in the extermination camps of Operation Reinhard including at Belzec (B), Sobibor (S), Treblinka (T), and at Lublin-Majdanek (L). The numbers...

genocide, most prominently at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Majdanek, Bełżec, Sobibór, and Chełmno Death marches of prisoners, particularly in the last...

and the aged and ill, were murdered on the spot. The rest were taken to Belzec where they were immediately murdered. Two hundred or so had hidden from...

Jewish prisoners who had worked at the Bełżec extermination camp were sent to Sobibor to be exterminated when Bełżec closed. From a note found among the...