A sign in Polish from the Belzec killing center that 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 showers."
Overview
- Caption
- A sign in Polish from the Belzec killing center that 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 showers."
- Date
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1942 - 1943
- Locale
- Belzec, [Lublin; Tomaszow Lubelski] Poland
- Variant Locale
- Belzhets
Beltzec - Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Muzeum Regionalne w Tomaszow Lubelski
- 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.
https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005191.
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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Muzeum Regionalne w Tomaszow Lubelski
Copyright: Public Domain - Published Source
- Encyclopedia of the Holocaust - Gutman, Israel (ed.) - MacMillan - p.177
Keywords & Subjects
- Record last modified:
- 2005-09-16 00:00:00
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