Belzec: Labor And Extermination Camps

The Belzec concentration camp was established November 1941. Belzec was located in southeastern Poland between the cities of Zamosc and Lvov. Gypsies, Jews and other people were sent to Belzec. Belzec was supervised by an unknown SS officer known as Der Meister. The entire camp occupied a relatively small, almost square area.

Auschwitz was one of the largest and first concentration camp during WW2 and next to Auschwitz were two other death camps that were named Auschwitz ll and lll. At Auschwitz, there was a total of 8 gas chambers and 4 of them can hold up to 2,000 prisoners (Mostly Jews) at a time. There were 11 million people murdered in the Holocaust and it estimated that 6 million Jews were killed and one in six was killed at Auschwitz.

Auschwitz was one of the most infamous and largest concentration camp known during World War II. It was located in the southwestern part of Poland commanded by Rudolf Höss. Auschwitz was first opened on June 14, 1940, much later than most of the other camps. It was in Auschwitz that the lives of so many were taken by methods of the gas chamber, crematoriums, and even from starvation and disease. These methods took "several hundreds and sometimes more than a thousand" lives a day. The majority of the lives killed were those of Jews although Gypsies, Yugoslavs, Poles, and many others of different ethnic backgrounds as well. The things most known about Auschwitz are the process people went through when entering the camp and

Auschwitz concentration camp, also known as Auschwitz- Birkenau, was Nazi Germany’s largest concentration camp (Berenbaum, Auschwitz). The camp was created because Hitler became “convinced that his “Jewish problem” would be solved only with the elimination of every Jew in his domain, along with artists, educators, Gypsies, communists, homosexuals, the mentally and physically handicapped and others deemed unfit for survival in Nazi Germany” (Auschwitz, History.com). Auschwitz was located in southern Poland near the industrial town of Oswiecim (Berenbaum, Auschwitz). Hitler’s team was known as the Secret Service (SS), which included soldiers who patrolled the streets and the men who ran the camps (Uwe Boll, Auschwitz). Auschwitz consisted of

The extermination and slave labor camp known as Belzec was indeed a nightmare to those who were held within its walls. Not only were the living conditions of the camp unbearable, but it was also very deadly. By closely examining Belzec, one gains an understanding of the horrors that occurred during the Holocaust. Many Jewish people died in Belzec, and the living conditions that they were forced to endure were intolerable and inhumane. Many innocent people suffered under the ruthless and cruel conditions in the extermination camp Belzec. Originally a slave labor camp, Belzec was located in South East Poland. It was said that the camp was responsible for the killing and murdering of 600,000 people. Some were Roma, but the majority of deaths

There were six major concentration camps located in Poland. In Chlemo, a concentration and extermination camp 320,000 were killed in gas vans. Auschwitz consisted of three concentration camps. It was a concentration and extermination camp, where 1,200,000 were killed by gas chambers. In Belzek, 600,000 Jews were killed by gas. Sobibor had five gas chambers, and 250,000 were killed. In Treblinka, 700,000 Jews were killed by being gassed in bath houses.

During the Nazi Holocaust, multiple working and death camps were created to hold the captured Jews. While the Jews lived in this camp, they were tortured, mistreated, worked to death and eventually were put to death by either execution by firearm or were put into a death camp which exterminated the Jews using poison gas. The Nazi Party had developed many death camps in the central european area including the 6 death camps of Poland; Auschwitz, Treblinka, Belzec, Chelmno, Sobibor, and Majdanek.

Birkenau separated the prisoners being held there. There were sections for Gypsies, men, women, and families. Since Birkenau was a death camp it had many buildings used for gassing and burning (ushmm.org). Two former farmhouses in the area that were owned by the Polish people forced to evacuate were used as gassing chambers. They made large crematorium buildings for burning the bodies of the victims killed in the gassing chambers (ushmm.org).

​A Concentration Camp was a place where they held Jews and other prisoners which they treated very harshly. There were twenty three major concentration camps all over the world. Such as Poland, Germany, Netherlands, and France. Also there were Extermination Camps which is where mass murders occurred during this time. Some of these camps were called Belzec, Chelmno, and Majdanek. Even though they were treated poorly, some of the prisoners survived.

Auschwitz was called the death camp. It was the largest concentration camp, and it had the largest prisoner population (Auschwitz). Nine out of ten prisoners in Auschwitz were Jewish (Auschwitz). Most prisoners that arrived at Auschwitz only survived for a few weeks, or months (Auschwitz). Jews died from starvation, medical experiments, gas chambers, diseases, and beatings. Jewish prisoners looked like walking skeletons because they were deprived from food, and water (Auschwitz). The prisoners, who were too weak to work, were sent to be killed in the gas chambers (Auschwitz). Some prisoners committed suicide by running into the electric fences (Auschwitz). Many people tried to escape, but only five hundred prisoners successfully escaped (Deem). It was nearly impossible to escape because the camp was surrounded by electrically charged barbed wire fences (Auschwitz). Auschwitz was also surrounded by SS guards equipped with machine guns (Auschwitz). Once the camp was liberated the SS

85 years ago, over a 12 year period, nearly six million Jews were killed in a genocide called The Holocaust. The Holocaust was led by the Nazi Party and Adolf Hitler was their leader. The mass murders took place at concentration camps throughout Europe. The majority of concentration camps resided in Poland and Germany. Many people believe there were only a few concentration camps. “However, researchers found that the Nazis had actually established 20,000 camps between 1933 and 1945” (“How Many Camps,” n.d.). In this paper I will be discussing the largest concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau.

The heart of the extermination camps was called Treblinka. By 1939 thousands of Jews were forced to work at the concentration camps and killed. The killed every one teens, children, the elderly anyone who opposed as a threat to the state. There were four extermination

Why was the Concentration camp Belzec so small? Because the town of Belzec was very small so they had very limited space for building, Also they had only 1,220 yards of space and got split into two sections. They started to built it by the Bug (buh) river in 1941, It also got surrounded by barbed wire fences. It is found in southeastern Poland between Zamosc and Lvov. It was also known for being a killing Center And held 2,000-2,500 people, And kill about 600,000 Jews.

Inmates resembled skeletons and were so weak they were unable to move. The smell of burning bodies was ever present and piles of corpses were scattered around the camp. However, you could be “saved” from the crematoria to be used as test subjects to cruel experimentation and used as lab rats for any experiment the scientists wanted to conduct. Later in the war, extermination camps were built. These were specialized for the mass murder of Jews using Zyklon B to ensure a painful, long, and torturous death. The bodies would then be thrown into the fire and all clothes, teeth, and shoes would be sent to pursue the German war front. At max efficiency, 20,000 people would be killed in the gas chambers a day. As the red Army approached near to liberate the Jews in concentration and extermination camps, SS officers sent prisoners on a death march across hundreds of miles, where they ran with no food or water, no matter the weather, until they reached the closest camp. SS officers proceeded to blow up the camps to hide the genocide from the

The concentration camps were located in Oswiecim, Poland. There were three main camps: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Auschwitz-Monowitz (Auschwitz-Birkenau- “The). Auschwitz-Birkenau was divided into ten different sections that had electric barbed wire fences. Men, women, Gypsy and Jewish families were isolated in their own sections. Auschwitz-Birkenau had the largest prisoner population