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    ISBN 978-1-56852-133-6. Museum-Memorial Site in Bełżec (official website). Museum and Memorial Site in Bełżec. Musiał, Bogdan (2000). "The Origins of 'Operation...
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    Kultury) and a public library in Bełżec. Extermination camp memorial Memorial to Polish soldiers killed in the Battle of Bełżec in 1939 Monument to Poles massacred...
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    The Belzec trial (German: Belzec-Prozess, Polish: proces Bełżec) in the mid-1960s was a war crimes trial of eight former SS members of Bełżec extermination...
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  • in 2013). Gmina Bełżec contains the villages and settlements of Bełżec, Chyże, Smoliska, Szalenik-Kolonia, and Zagóra. Gmina Bełżec is bordered by the...
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    of the Belzec extermination camp [Historia Niemieckiego Obozu Zagłady w Bełżcu] (in Polish), Muzeum – Miejsce Pamięci w Bełżcu (National Bełżec Museum...
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    history. During the operation, as many as two million Jews were sent to Bełżec, Sobibór, and Treblinka to be murdered in purpose-built gas chambers. In...
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  • Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: the Operation Reinhard Death Camps is a 1987 book by Israeli historian Yitzhak Arad which discusses Operation Reinhard and...
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    Zagóra [zaˈɡura] is a part of the village of Bełżec in the administrative district of Gmina Bełżec, within Tomaszów Lubelski County, Lublin Voivodeship...
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    Rudolf Reder (category Belzec extermination camp)
    (April 4, 1881 – October 6, 1977) was one of only two survivors of the Bełżec extermination camp. His testimony after the war became very well known....
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    Christian Wirth (category Belzec extermination camp personnel)
    commandant of Bełżec in December 1941. Belzec became fully operational for gassing on or around 17 March 1942. Before coming to Belzec, Wirth became acquainted...
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    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...
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    of Treblinka extermination camp Warsaw Ghetto Hunger Study Yitzhak Arad, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka. Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis...
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  • Lorenz Hackenholt (category Belzec extermination camp personnel)
    During World War II Hackenholt built and operated the gas chamber at the Bełżec extermination camp in occupied Poland during Operation Reinhard. In so doing...
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    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...
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    Gottlieb Hering (category Belzec extermination camp personnel)
    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...
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    were imprisoned in labour camps. The survivors were likely exterminated at Bełżec, Sobibor, or Treblinka. A further 5,000 Sinti and Austrian Lalleri people...
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    Retrieved 28 January 2016. National Bełżec Museum. "Historia Niemieckiego Obozu Zagłady w Bełżcu" [History of the Belzec extermination camp] (in Polish)....
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  • 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...
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  • 1941 Höfle was in Mogilev. He was involved in deportations to the camps of Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka. He lived and worked from the Aktion Reinhard headquarters...
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    Polish origin, during the Holocaust in the Majdanek, Treblinka, Sobibór and Bełżec extermination camps. Historian Michael Allen described him as "the vilest...
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  • Nazi extermination camps Auschwitz II-Birkenau Bełżec Chełmno Jasenovac Majdanek Sajmište Sobibor Treblinka Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz I Bergen-Belsen...
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    Sobibór extermination camp Belzec trial before the 1st Munich District Court in the mid-1960s, eight SS-men of the Bełżec extermination camp Majdanek...
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    sworn to secrecy, three extermination camps were built in occupied Poland: Bełżec (operational by March 1942), Sobibór (operational by May 1942), and Treblinka...
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    Durchgangslager ('transit camp') for Bełżec death camp located in the town of Izbica Lubelska, midway between Lublin and Bełżec. While Karski accurately reported...
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    The extermination camps' function was genocide; they included Treblinka, Bełżec, and Sobibór built specifically for Aktion Reinhard, as well as the original...
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  • [citation needed] Stangl studied the camp operations and management of Bełżec, which had commenced extermination activity. He then accelerated the completion...
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    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...
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  • Josef Oberhauser (category Belzec extermination camp personnel)
    August 1942, Oberhauser was posted to Bełżec extermination camp as the leader of a guard platoon. He first visited Bełżec in the fall of 1941, before the extermination...
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    poison gas in extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, and Chełmno in occupied Poland. Separate Nazi persecutions killed...
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    primary purpose. They took an active role in the executions of Jews at Bełżec, Sobibor, Treblinka II, Warsaw (three times), Częstochowa, Lublin, Lvov...
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