SS guards stand in formation outside the commandant's house near the Belzec concentration camp.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 87764

Overview

Caption: SS guards stand in formation outside the commandant's house near the Belzec concentration camp.

Pictured (in the front row from right to left) are SS Rottenfuehrer Heinrich Barbl and SS Oberwachmeister Artur Dachsel; (second row) SS Hauptscharfuehrer Lorenz Hackenholt, SS Unterscharfuehrer Ernst Zierke, SS Untersturmfuehrer Karl Gringers (front), and SS Untersturmfuehrer Fritz Tauscher (second from the left).
Date: 1942
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

Copyright: Agency Agreement

Provenance: Zygmunt Klukowski

Source Record ID: 7847
Muzeum Regionalne w Tomaszow Lubelski

Copyright: Public Domain
Published Source: The Good Old Days: The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders - Klee, Ernst, et al. (ed.) - The Free Press

Keyword: BARBL, HEINRICH BELZEC BICYCLES CONCENTRATION CAMPS DACHSEL, ARTUR GRINGERS, KARL GROUP PORTRAITS GUARDS HACHENHOLT, LORENZ KILLING CENTERS NAZI OFFICIALS SS (SCHUTZSTAFFELN) TAUSCHER, FRITZ ZIERKE, ERNST
Photo Designation: KILLING CENTERS -- Belzec -- Wartime