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In May
1940, the Germans built a labor camp for Jews in Belzec, a small
town in the southeastern part of the Lublin district in Poland. The
Jewish inmates were put to work at building fortifications and
anti-tank trenches on the German-Soviet frontier. The camp was
closed in late 1940. In late October, 1941, construction of an
extermination camp at Belzec began as part of Operation Reinhard.
The camp was built along a railroad siding half a kilometer from the
Belzec railroad station. The anti-tank trenches on the camp premises
were given a new purpose: mass graves for the Jews who would be
murdered there. |
