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.
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  • Type: Memorial
  • Description: Nazi German death camp in occupied Poland
  • Also known as: “Vernichtungslager Belzec”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Belzec Memorial Museum and Bełżec Station.

Museum
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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. is situated 100 metres south of Belzec extermination camp.

Railway station
Photo: Janusz J., CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a railway station, which is situated 730 metres northwest of Belzec extermination camp.

Cemetery
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is situated 1¼ km west of Belzec extermination camp.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Smoliska and Bełżec.

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

Photo: Janusz J., CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village in eastern in the . It is mainly known for the extermination camp; see Holocaust remembrance.

Hamlet
is a part of the of in the administrative district of , within , , in eastern Poland. In , there is a unique over 200-year-old juniper tree, a notable local natural monument. is situated 3 km northwest of Belzec extermination camp.

Belzec extermination camp

Latitude
50.37331° or 50° 22′ 24″ north
Longitude
23.45816° or 23° 27′ 29″ east
Open location code
9G259FF5+87
Open­Street­Map ID
way 149827782
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Wiki­data ID
Q160143
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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: “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: “Bełżec”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Camp de Belzec”
  • Persian: “اردوگاه مرگ بلزک”
  • 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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