Ruski Las
Ruski Las is a locality in Gmina Bełżec, Tomaszów County, Lubelskie. Ruski Las is situated nearby to the hamlet Święcie, as well as near Smoliska.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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 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. Zagóra is situated 4 km northwest of Ruski Las.
Ruski Las
- Type: Locality
- Location: Gmina Bełżec, Tomaszów County, Lubelskie, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.36287° or 50° 21′ 46″ northLongitude
23.45883° or 23° 27′ 32″ eastOpen location code
9G259F75+4GOpenStreetMap ID
node 4339060239OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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