Bełżec memorial and museum

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The Bełżec memorial and museum is a commemorative site and educational center in southeastern Poland that preserves the memory of the victims of the Nazi Bełżec extermination camp through exhibitions, documentation, and a large-scale memorial landscape.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Holocaust memorial
memorial site
museum
architect Andrzej Sołyga
Marek Chodor
Zdzisław Pidek
coFundedBy American Jewish Committee
Council of Ministers of Poland
surface form: "Polish government"
commemorates Jewish victims of the Holocaust
Roma victims of the Holocaust
victims of the Bełżec extermination camp
country Poland
hasPart commemorative plaques
documentation center
educational facilities
exhibition space
mass grave field
memorial wall with victims’ names
museum building
outdoor memorial landscape
symbolic railway ramp
visitor center
heritageDesignation site of former Nazi German extermination camp
inception early 2000s
languageOfExhibits English
Polish
locatedIn Belzec
surface form: "Bełżec"

Lublin Voivodeship NERFINISHED
southeastern Poland
locatedOnSiteOf former Bełżec extermination camp
offers educational programs
guided tours
temporary exhibitions
openedToPublic 2004
operator Majdanek
surface form: "State Museum at Majdanek"
ownedBy Polish state
partOf Majdanek
surface form: "State Museum at Majdanek"
purpose commemoration of victims
documentation of crimes committed at Bełżec
education about the Holocaust
preservation of historical memory
subjectOf documentary films
memorial architecture studies
scholarly research on Holocaust memory
theme Holocaust history
Nazi extermination policy
Operation Reinhard

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Mount of Remembrance contains Bełżec memorial and museum
this entity surface form: "Cattle Car Memorial"
Belzec hasMemorial Bełżec memorial and museum