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: 04378

Date: 1944 May 13
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

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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Keyword: BELZEC
CONCENTRATION CAMPS
KILLING CENTERS
PHOTOGRAPHS (AERIAL)
VIEWS
Photo Source: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Copyright: Public Domain

Provenance: Dino Brugioni

Second Provenance: Stabsbildabteilung b. Chef Gen-Stab d.Heeres

Source Record ID: 8095

Second Record ID: Nr. 10546/156
: Record last modified: 2003-04-29 00:00:00
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