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Bełżec extermination camp

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  • Meir Yarmush (1874 - 1942)
    Sources Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy : May 22 2022, 21:23:37 UTC Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy : Jun 20 2022, 13:54:16 UTC
  • Froim Fritz Treister (1900 - c.1943)
    Efraim Froim "Fritz" TREISTER: b. 1900, Yahilnytsya - d. circa 1943, Belzec, HOLOCAUST Details of deportation and subsequent death courtesy of: Fritz Efraim Treister was born in Galicia Region, Po...
  • Pesla Silber (1888 - c.1942)
    cf. Yad Vashem Page of Testimony: Pesla Silber nee Lowenthal was born in Przemysl, Poland in 1888 to Aron and Golda nee Rubinfeld. She was married to Saharia. Prior to WWII she lived in Przemysl, P...
  • Henoch Löwenthal (1886 - c.1942)
    cf. Yad Vashem Page of Testimony: Henoch Lowenthal was born in Przemysl, Poland in 1886 to Aron and Golda nee Rubinfeld. He was married to Regina. Prior to WWII he lived in Lemberg, Poland. During ...
  • Golda Löwenthal (c.1858 - c.1942)
    Golda LÖWENTHAL, née RUBENFELD RUBINFELD: b. circa 1858, Przemysl - d. circa 1942, Belzec, HOLOCAUST Details from actual IKG-Przemsyl marriage registration, viewable courtesy of: 1891.01.05 - Israel ...

To properly record and document and then to remember those who died in this terrible place.

For information cf. numerous sources including the following:

Belzec extermination camp - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be%C5%82%C5%BCec_extermination_camp

Bełżec[2] (pronounced [%CB%88b%C9%9Bu%CC%AF%CA%90%C9%9Bt%CD%A1s], in German: Belzec) was a Nazi German extermination camp built by the SS for the purpose of implementing the secretive Operation Reinhard, the plan to eradicate Polish Jewry, a key part of the "Final Solution" which entailed the murder of some 6 million Jews in the Holocaust.[3] The camp operated from 17 March 1942 to the end of December 1942.[4] It was situated about 0.5 km (0.31 mi) south of the local railroad station of Bełżec, in the new Distrikt Lublin of the semi-colonial General Government territory of German-occupied Poland.[5] The burning of exhumed corpses on five open-air grids and bone crushing continued until March 1943.[6]

Between 430,000 and 500,000 Jews are believed to have been murdered by the SS at Bełżec.[4][7] This makes it the third worst extermination camp, exceeded only by Treblinka and Auschwitz. Only seven Jews performing slave labour with the camp's Sonderkommando survived World War II;[6] and only one of them became known,[8] thanks to his postwar testimony submitted officially.[9] The lack of viable witnesses who could testify about the camp's operation is the primary reason why Bełżec is so little known despite the enormous number of victims.[9]

And also e.g.

: Belzec Death Camp www.HolocaustResearchProject.org

http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ar/belzec.html

&

Museum – Memorial Site in Belzec

http://www.belzec.eu/en