World War I cemetery in Bełżec
World War I cemetery in Bełżec is a cemetery in Gmina Bełżec, Tomaszów County, Lubelskie. World War I cemetery in Bełżec is situated nearby to the grassland Skwer 100-lecia Odzyskania Niepodległości, as well as near the fire station Ochotnicza Straż Pożarna w Bełżcu I.Photo: Historyczka, CC BY-SA 3.0 pl.
- Type: Cemetery
- Description: house in Bełżec, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland
- Also known as: “Cmentarz wojenny ‘Domałowiec’”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Bełżec Station and Belzec extermination camp.
Bełżec Station
Railway station
Photo: Janusz J., CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bełżec Station is a railway station, which is situated 590 metres south of World War I cemetery in Bełżec.
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 extermination camp is situated 1¼ km southeast of World War I cemetery in Bełżec.
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. Belzec Memorial Museum is situated 1¼ km southeast of World War I cemetery in Bełżec.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bełżec and Smoliska.
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.
Smoliska
Hamlet
Smoliska is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bełżec, within Tomaszów County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland.
Zagóra
Hamlet
Zagóra is a part of the village of Bełżec in the administrative district of Gmina Bełżec, within Tomaszów County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. In Zagóra, there is a unique over 200-year-old juniper tree, a notable local natural monument.
World War I cemetery in Bełżec
- Categories: house and burial
- Location: Gmina Bełżec, Tomaszów County, Lubelskie, Poland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.3819° or 50° 22′ 55″ northLongitude
23.44681° or 23° 26′ 49″ eastInception
1915Open location code
9G259CJW+QPOpenStreetMap ID
way 372784782OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemeteryWikidata ID
Q30103664
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In Other Languages
“World War I cemetery in Bełżec” goes by many names.
- Polish: “Cmentarz wojenny w Bełżcu”
- Polish: “Cmentarz wojenny z I wojny światowej (Domałowiec) w Bełżcu”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Skwer 100-lecia Odzyskania Niepodległości and Ochotnicza Straż Pożarna w Bełżcu I.
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