Belzic Concentration Camp

The concentration camp known as Belzic was a death camp that lasted between March 17,1942 to summer 1943. To operate this camp properly it had to be staffed by 20 SS men and 90 Ukrainians. This camp was not only for Jews, but also for gypsies that were considered unworthy. Jews were just told that they were going to relocate, but that wasn't the case. They believed they were going to be safe, but they ended up in the Belzec death camp.

This camp was quite different from other camps because this was a small camp and was camouflaged and hidden from the outside world. It was also among the first to have stationary gas chambers. The Waffen ss' weren't the only ones killing Jews so were Ukrainians that were ordered to work in Belzic. This

They received about 11,000 innocent Jews a time where some died in the train and some died in the camp. Jews were put in gas chambers if they weren't fitting for work when they arrived. In the Belzec death camp there were no such thing as children or elders due to being unfit for work. These were just of the few ways Jews were killed.

The question is where did they get all the Jews. The majority of them were taken from polish ghettos, but also from Germany,Austria,and Czech. There were about 434,500 Jewish Poles and Jewish Romanians deported to Belzec between March and December 1942 which in their arrival to Belzec they were killed. The first Jewish communities That were sent to Belzec were from Lublin and Lvov Poland.

Belzic was a pretty small camp, but contained a lot. This camp contained a railway which leads into the camp and a storage for belongings. As the Jews were confiscated of their items some head straight to the gas chambers and some were lead to their barracks. Worst of all some this camp had 6 gas chambers and 5 burial pits for the killings of Jews or gypsies and later buried there. Some weren't buried as some were also burned in