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Group portrait of Jewish forced laborers at the Belzec camp.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 51528
Group portrait of Jewish forced laborers at the Belzec camp.

Group portrait of Jewish forced laborers at the Belzec camp.

Date
Circa 1940 - 1943
Locale
Belzec, [Lublin; Tomaszow Lubelski] Poland
Variant Locale
Belzhets
Beltzec
Photo Designation
KILLING CENTERS -- Belzec -- Wartime
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Muzeum Regionalne w Tomaszow Lubelski

About This Photograph

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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Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
Muzeum Regionalne w Tomaszow Lubelski
Copyright: Public Domain
Instytut Pamieci Narodowej
Copyright: Agency Agreement
Provenance: Michael Tregenz
Source Record ID: 58727
The Wiener Library for the study of the Holocaust & Genocide
Copyright: Agency Agreement
 
Record last modified: 2007-01-10 00:00:00
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