Place · extermination camp
Belzec
Belzec
Camp named in the appeal as a site of mass murder.
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... BE AWARE — five million European Jews have
already been murdered by Hitler and his hangmen. All
that remains of Polish Jewry is about ten per cent of the
original Jewish community. In Chelmno and in Belzec,
in Auschwitz and in Treblinka, in Sobibor and in other
camps more than three million Polish Jews were tor-
tured, suffering the most gruesome deaths. ...Connected nodes
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