View of the home of the commandant of the Belzec concentration camp, located a short distance from the camp.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 10264

Overview

Caption: View of the home of the commandant of the Belzec concentration camp, located a short distance from the camp.
Locale: Belzec, [Lublin; Tomaszow Lubelski] Poland
Variant Locale: Belzhets
Beltzec
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Instytut Pamieci Narodowej
Event History: In early 1940 the Germans set up a forced labor camp for Jewish prisoners in Belzec. The inmates were employed in the building of fortifications and the digging of anti-tank ditches along the demarcation line between Germany and Soviet-occupied Poland. The camp was closed down at the end of 1940. The following year, in November 1941, construction began on the Belzec death camp.

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Photo Source: Instytut Pamieci Narodowej

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Source Record ID: 58709