Belzec

Belzec was a Nazi extermination camp in Poland during World War II, part of the Holocaust. Built by Nazi Germany, it was designed solely for mass murder, primarily targeting Jewish victims, along with Roma and others. Victims arrived by train, were quickly killed—mostly in gas chambers—and their bodies were disposed of in mass graves or crematoria. Belzec operated between 1942 and 1943, and it's estimated that around 500,000 to 600,000 people were murdered there. It stands as a tragic symbol of the Holocaust’s brutality and the systematic genocide carried out by the Nazi regime.