Gmina Bełżec
Gmina Bełżec is a rural gmina in Tomaszów Lubelski County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. Its seat is the village of Bełżec, which lies approximately 8 kilometres south of Tomaszów Lubelski and 114 km south-east of the regional capital Lublin.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 3,370 residents
- Description: rural gmina of Poland
- Also known as: “Belzec” and “Bełżec”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Belzec extermination camp and Belzec Memorial Museum.
Belzec extermination camp
Memorial
Photo: Yarek shalom, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Belzec Memorial Museum
Museum
Photo: Lysy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bełżec Museum and Memorial Site, also known as Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec is a memorial complex and martyrology museum located on the grounds of the former German Nazi Belzec extermination camp, commemorating approximately 450,000 Jews from Poland and other European countries who were killed there between 1942 and 1943.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bełżec and Chyże.
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.
Chyże
Village
Photo: Dariusz Dudek, CC BY 3.0.
Chyże is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bełżec, within Tomaszów Lubelski County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. The village is located in the historical region Galicia. Chyże is situated 4 km northwest of Gmina Bełżec.
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.
Gmina Bełżec
- Category: rural municipality of Poland
- Location: Tomaszów County, Lubelskie, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Yiddish—“Gmina Bełżec” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Bełżec udalerria”
- Belarusian: “Бэлжац”
- Belarusian: “Гміна Бэлжац”
- Cebuano: “Bełżec”
- Central Kurdish: “گمینا بێلزێک”
- Chinese: “Bełżec Kong-siā”
- Dutch: “Bełżec”
- French: “Bełżec”
- German: “Gmina Bełżec”
- Ido: “Komono Bełżec”
- Italian: “Bełżec”
- Japanese: “ベウジェツ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bełżec”
- Persian: “بئوژتس”
- Persian: “گمینا بئوژتس”
- Persian: “گمینای بئوژتس”
- Polish: “Bełżec”
- Polish: “gmina Bełżec”
- Portuguese: “Comuna de Bełżec”
- Russian: “Белжец”
- Slovak: “Gmina Bełżec”
- South Azerbaijani: “قمینا بوژتس”
- Turkish: “Bełżec”
- Ukrainian: “Белжець”
- Ukrainian: “Белзець”
- Ukrainian: “Ґміна Белжець”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gmina Bełżec”
- Yiddish: “בעלדזיץ”
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