Bełżec extermination camp
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Facts and practical information
Belzec was a Nazi German extermination camp built by the SS for the purpose of implementing the secretive Operation Reinhard, the plan to murder all Polish Jews, a major part of the "Final Solution" which in total entailed the murder of about 6 million Jews in the Holocaust. The camp operated from 17 March 1942 to the end of June 1943. It was situated about 500 m south of the local railroad station of Bełżec, in the new Lublin District of the General Government territory of German-occupied Poland. The burning of exhumed corpses on five open-air grids and bone crushing continued until March 1943. ()
Lublin
Bełżec extermination camp – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)
Nearby attractions include: Park Miejski im. Augusta Krzyżanowskiego, Kościół filialny pw. Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny w Woli Wielkiej, Bełżec.