Belzec

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Belzec was a Nazi German extermination camp in occupied Poland where hundreds of thousands of Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.


Statements (48)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Holocaust site
Nazi German extermination camp
category Holocaust
surface form: "Holocaust in Poland"

Nazi war crimes in Poland
constructionStartDate 1941-11
country Nazi Germany
coverUpActions area ploughed and planted with trees
bodies exhumed and burned
camp buildings dismantled
demolished 1943
endDate 1943-06
estimatedNumberOfVictims approximately 430000
between 430000 and 500000
hasHistoricalSignificance one of the first stationary extermination camps
site of mass murder during the Holocaust
hasMemorial Bełżec memorial and museum
hasNotablePerpetrator Christian Wirth
Otto Hofmann
surface form: "Gottlieb Hering"

Josef Oberhauser
Lorenz Hackenholt
SS-Scharführer Heinrich Gley
hasSurvivors very few known survivors
languageOfName Polish
locatedIn General Government
District of Lublin
surface form: "Lublin District"

occupied Poland
southeastern Poland
locatedNear Bełżec village
memorialManagedBy Majdanek
surface form: "Majdanek State Museum"
memorialOpened 2004
namedAfter nearby village of Bełżec
operatedBy Reinhard program authorities
SS
Schutzstaffel (SS)
surface form: "SS-Totenkopfverbände"
partOf Operation Reinhard
network of Operation Reinhard camps
precededBy Chelmno
surface form: "Chełmno extermination camp"
purpose extermination of Jews
implementation of the Final Solution
relatedCamp Sobibor
Treblinka
surface form: "Treblinka extermination camp"
startDate 1942-03-17
usesMethod carbon monoxide poisoning
gas chambers
victimGroup Jews
Poles
Roma
Soviet POWs

Referenced by (21)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Christian Wirth commanded Belzec
this entity surface form: "Belzec extermination camp"
this entity surface form: "Bełżec extermination camp"
this entity surface form: "Belzec extermination camp"
this entity surface form: "Belzec extermination camp"
this entity surface form: "Bełżec extermination camp"
this entity surface form: "Bełżec extermination camp"
Operation Reinhard hasPart Belzec
this entity surface form: "Belzec extermination camp"
this entity surface form: "Bełżec"
Holocaust notableCamp Belzec
this entity surface form: "Belzec extermination camp"
Porajmos notableSite Belzec
this entity surface form: "Belzec extermination camp"
this entity surface form: "Belzec extermination camp"
Treblinka partOf Belzec
this entity surface form: "Operation Reinhard"
subject surface form: "Heinrich Gley"
this entity surface form: "Bełżec extermination camp operations"
Lublin Ghetto relatedTo Belzec
this entity surface form: "Bełżec extermination camp"
Kurt Franz servedIn Belzec
this entity surface form: "Belzec extermination camp"
Samudaripen tookPlaceIn Belzec
this entity surface form: "Belzec extermination camp"
this entity surface form: "Belzec extermination camp"
this entity surface form: "Belzec extermination camp"
subject surface form: "Heinrich Gley"
this entity surface form: "Bełżec extermination camp"

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