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Bełżec extermination camp

1942–1943 · 20th century · Also known as Belzec

Bełżec was a Nazi extermination camp in south-eastern German-occupied Poland, the first built for Operation Reinhard, the plan to murder the Jews of the General Government. Between March and December 1942 some 430,000 to 500,000 Jews were killed there in gas chambers, and only a handful of prisoners are known to have survived. The Germans dismantled the camp in 1943.

Bełżec extermination camp
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