Overview
- Caption
- 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
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1944 May 13
- Locale
- Belzec, [Lublin; Tomaszow Lubelski] Poland
- Variant Locale
- Belzhets
Beltzec - Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
- 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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National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
Copyright: Public DomainProvenance: Dino BrugioniSecond Provenance: Stabsbildabteilung b. Chef Gen-Stab d.HeeresSource Record ID: 8095Second Record ID: Nr. 10546/156
Keywords & Subjects
- Photo Designation
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KILLING CENTERS -- Belzec -- Wartime
- Record last modified:
- 2003-04-29 00:00:00
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