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An aerial view of the Belzec area taken by the Luftwaffe during the war, which shows the camp and the rail lines leading to it.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 04375
An aerial view of the Belzec area taken by the Luftwaffe during the war, which shows the camp and the rail lines leading to it.

An aerial view of the Belzec area taken by the Luftwaffe during the war, which shows the camp and the rail lines leading to it.

Date
Circa 1944
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 National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

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
National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
Copyright: Public Domain
Provenance: Dino Brugioni
Second Provenance: Luftbildstaffel 1
Source Record ID: Nr. 4569/526
 
Record last modified: 2003-04-29 00:00:00
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