Belzec extermination camp
Belzec 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Cemetery
- Description: Nazi German death camp in occupied Poland
- Also known as: “Vernichtungslager Belzec”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Bełżec Station and World War I cemetery in Bełżec.
Bełżec Station
Railway station
Photo: Janusz J., CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bełżec Station is a railway station, which is situated 470 metres east of Belzec extermination camp.
World War I cemetery in Bełżec
Cemetery
Photo: Historyczka, CC BY-SA 3.0 pl.
World War I cemetery in Bełżec is situated 450 metres northeast of Belzec extermination camp.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Smoliska and Bełżec.
Smoliska
Hamlet
Smoliska is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bełżec, within Tomaszów Lubelski County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland.
Bełżec
Photo: Janusz J., CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bełżec is a village in eastern Poland in the Lublin voivodeship. It is mainly known for the Bełżec extermination camp; see Holocaust remembrance.
Zagóra
Hamlet
Zagóra is a part of the village of Bełżec in the administrative district of Gmina Bełżec, within Tomaszów Lubelski County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. In Zagóra, there is a unique over 200-year-old juniper tree, a notable local natural monument.
Belzec extermination camp
- Categories: extermination camp, concentration camp, and burial
- Location: Gmina Bełżec, Tomaszów County, Lubelskie, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Belzec extermination camp” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “معسكر بيلزك للإبادة”
- Armenian: “Բելժեց”
- Azerbaijani: “Beljets ölüm düşərgəsi”
- Bulgarian: “Белжец (лагер на смъртта)”
- Bulgarian: “Белжец”
- Catalan: “Belzec”
- Catalan: “Camp d’extermini de Belzec”
- Catalan: “Camp de concentració de Belzec”
- Central Kurdish: “کەمپی بێلزێک”
- Chinese: “貝烏热茨滅絕營”
- Chinese: “貝烏热茨灭绝营”
- Chinese: “贝乌热茨灭绝营”
- Czech: “Vyhlazovací tábor Belzec”
- Danish: “Bełżec udryddelseslejr”
- Danish: “Belzec”
- Danish: “Bełżec”
- Dutch: “Belzec”
- Dutch: “Bełżec”
- Dutch: “Vernietigingskamp Belzec”
- Esperanto: “Ekstermejo Bełżec”
- Esperanto: “Nazia ekstermejo Bełżec/Belzec”
- Finnish: “Belzec”
- Finnish: “Bełżec”
- French: “Belzec”
- French: “camp d’extermination de Belzec”
- French: “Centre d’extermination de Bełżec”
- German: “Belzec”
- German: “KZ Belzec”
- German: “KZ Bełżec”
- German: “Sonderkommando Belzec”
- German: “Vernichtungslager Belzec”
- Greek: “Στρατόπεδο εξόντωσης Μπέλζεκ”
- Hebrew: “בלז’ץ”
- Hebrew: “בלזץ”
- Hebrew: “מחנה ההשמדה בלז’ץ”
- Hungarian: “belzeci megsemmisitő tábor”
- Hungarian: “Belzeci megsemmisítőtábor”
- Indonesian: “Kamp pemusnahan Belzec”
- Italian: “Belzec”
- Italian: “Campo di sterminio di Belzec”
- Italian: “campo di sterminio di Bełżec”
- Italian: “Campo di sterminio di Bełżec”
- Japanese: “ベウジェッツ強制収容所”
- Japanese: “ベウジェッツ絶滅収容所”
- Japanese: “ベウジェツ強制収容所”
- Japanese: “ベウジェツ絶滅収容所”
- Japanese: “ベウゼッツ強制収容所”
- Japanese: “ベウゼッツ絶滅収容所”
- Japanese: “ベウゼツ強制収容所”
- Japanese: “ベウゼツ絶滅収容所”
- Japanese: “ベルゼク強制収容所”
- Japanese: “ベルゼク絶滅収容所”
- Japanese: “ベルゼック強制収容所”
- Japanese: “ベルゼック絶滅収容所”
- Korean: “베우제츠 강제 수용소”
- Lithuanian: “Belžeco mirties stovykla”
- Low German: “Belzec”
- Malay: “Kem Penghapusan Belzec”
- Malayalam: “ബെൽസെക് എക്സ്റ്റർമിനേഷൻ ക്യാമ്പ്”
- Newari: “बेल्जेक स्याइगु क्याम्प”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Belzec”
- Norwegian: “Belzec”
- Norwegian: “Bełżec”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Camp de Belzec”
- Persian: “اردوگاه مرگ بلزک”
- Polish: “Bełżec”
- Polish: “niemiecki obóz zagłady w Bełżcu”
- Polish: “Niemiecki Obóz Zagłady w Bełżcu”
- Polish: “Obóz koncentracyjny w Bełżcu”
- Polish: “obóz zagłady w Bełżcu”
- Polish: “Obóz zagłady w Bełżcu”
- Polish: “Sonderkommando Belzec der Waffen-SS”
- Portuguese: “Belzec”
- Portuguese: “Bełżec”
- Portuguese: “Campo de concentração de Belzec”
- Portuguese: “Campo de extermínio de Belzec”
- Portuguese: “Campo de extermínio de Bełżec”
- Romanian: “Belzec”
- Romanian: “Lagărul de exterminare Belzec”
- Romanian: “Lagărul de exterminare Bełżec”
- Russian: “Белжец”
- Russian: “Бельзец”
- Serbian: “Konzentrationslager Belzec”
- Serbian: “Logor smrti Belzec”
- Serbian: “Белзец”
- Serbian: “Логор Белзец”
- Serbian: “Логор смрти Белзец”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Logor Belzec”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Logor smrti Belzec”
- Slovak: “Vyhladzovací tábor Bełżec”
- Spanish: “Belzec”
- Spanish: “Campo de exterminio de belzec”
- Spanish: “Campo de exterminio de Bełżec”
- Swedish: “Belzec”
- Swedish: “Bełżec”
- Swedish: “Utrotningslägret Belzecs”
- Thai: “Belzec extermination camp”
- Thai: “ค่ายมรณะแบวแชตส์”
- Turkish: “Belzec imha kampı”
- Turkish: “Belzec”
- Ukrainian: “Белжец”
- Ukrainian: “Белжець”
- Vietnamese: “Trại hủy diệt Belzec”
- Vietnamese: “Trại hủy diệt Bełżec”
- Western Frisian: “Belzec”
- Western Frisian: “Bełżec”
- Yiddish: “בעלזשיץ פארטיליקונג לאגער”
- Yiddish: “בעלזשעץ פארניכטונגס לאגער”
- Yiddish: “בעלזשעץ”
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