Scenes from a Visit to the Belzec Extermination Camp on 27 September 2015 during a motorhome tour of Eastern Poland
Approximately 430,000 people were murdered at Belzec on the River Bug between March 1942 and December 1942. The great majority were Jews brought by the trainload in cattle trucks from many parts of German-occupied Europe where they had been concentrated in ghettos. The victims were transferred from the unloading ramp directly into one of six gas chambers, pausing only to leave all their belongings including their clothes.The killing was carried out with the exhaust fumes from a stationary diesel engine.
The Germans attempted to remove all traces of the site; what remains at Belzec are memorials to the victims and an excellent museum with photographs, videos and accounts from some of the handful of survivors.
The Germans attempted to remove all traces of the site; what remains at Belzec are memorials to the victims and an excellent museum with photographs, videos and accounts from some of the handful of survivors.
