Bełżec

Bełżec is a village in eastern in the . It is mainly known for the Bełżec extermination camp; see Holocaust remembrance.
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  • Type: Village with 2,520 residents
  • Description: village in Lublin Voivodeship, Poland
  • Also known as: “Belzec”, “Bełżec (Poland)”, and “Belzhec”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Belzec extermination camp and Bełżec Station.

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.

Railway station
Photo: Janusz J., CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a railway station.

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 , 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 Zagóra and Smoliska.

Hamlet
is a part of the of Bełżec in the administrative district of , within Tomaszów Lubelski County, , in eastern Poland. In , there is a unique over 200-year-old juniper tree, a notable local natural monument.

Hamlet
is a in the administrative district of , within Tomaszów Lubelski County, , in eastern Poland.

Hamlet
is a in the administrative district of , within Tomaszów Lubelski County, , in eastern Poland.

Bełżec

Latitude
50.3847° or 50° 23′ 5″ north
Longitude
23.4378° or 23° 26′ 16″ east
Population
2,520
Elevation
262 metres (860 feet)
United Nations Location Code
PL BEC
Open location code
9G259CMQ+V4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3763151471
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
7576105
Wiki­data ID
Q854612
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Yiddish—“Bełżec” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Bełżec”
  • Cebuano: “Bełżec”
  • Chechen: “Белжець”
  • Chinese: “Bełżec”
  • Czech: “Bełżec (Poland)”
  • Czech: “Bełżec”
  • Dutch: “Bełżec”
  • Esperanto: “Bełżec”
  • Estonian: “Bełżec”
  • French: “Bełżec”
  • German: “Bełżec (Poland)”
  • German: “Bełżec”
  • Greek: “Μπέουζετς”
  • Hebrew: “בלזץ‘”
  • Ido: “Bełżec”
  • Irish: “Bełżec”
  • Japanese: “ベウジェツ”
  • Japanese: “ベウジェッツ”
  • Japanese: “ベウゼツ”
  • Japanese: “ベウゼッツ”
  • Japanese: “ベルゼク”
  • Japanese: “ベルゼック”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bełżec (village)”
  • Persian: “بئوژتس”
  • Persian: “بوژتس (استان لوبلین)”
  • Polish: “Bełżec”
  • Romanian: “Bełżec”
  • Russian: “Белжец”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بوژتس”
  • Tatar: “Белжець”
  • Turkish: “Bełżec”
  • Ukrainian: “Белжец”
  • Ukrainian: “Белзець”
  • Ukrainian: “Бельжец”
  • Vietnamese: “Bełżec (làng)”
  • Vietnamese: “Bełżec”
  • Western Frisian: “Bełżec”
  • Yiddish: “בעלדזיץ”
  • Yiddish: “בעלזשעץ”

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