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Background
Belzec (English: or , Polish: [ËbÉu̯ÊÉtÍ¡s]; German: [ËbÉlzÉts]) was a Nazi German extermination camp in occupied Poland. It was 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", the overall Nazi effort to complete the genocide of all European Jews. Before Germany's defeat put an end to this project, more than six million Jews had been murdered in the Holocaust. The camp operated from 17 March 1942 to the end of June 1943. It was situated about 500 m (1,600 ft) south of the local railroad station of BeÅżec, in the new Lublin District of the General Government territory of German-occupied Poland.
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Notable inmates
Adolf Gimpel1875 · clarinetist- Rosa Luftig1906–1940
- Haïm Hirszman1912–1946 · politician
- Berta Luftig1917–1940
- Antonina Hulles1872–1942
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Sources
- EHRI Authority Record
- Wikidata entity
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- EHRI Authority List of Camps and Ghettos / USHMM Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos — European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) / United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)
- Wikidata (Q160143)
- Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Belzec extermination camp. Retrieved July 22, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/belzec-extermination-camp
Chicago
"Belzec extermination camp." World Prisons. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/belzec-extermination-camp.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-belzec-extermination-camp,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Belzec extermination camp},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/belzec-extermination-camp},
urldate = {2026-07-22}
}