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Belzec
Was an extermination camp
Operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II
Active between 17 March 1942 and 8 December 1942
600,000 Jews were killed in its gas chambers
The camp was destroyed by the Nazis during 1943.
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Reconstructed cremation rails in Belzec Memorial Site. During 1943 all corpses buried at Belzec were secretly exhumed and then gradually cremated on long open-air pyres.
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