August 10: Deportations from Lvov to Belzec begin; 50,000 gassed

The "great Aktion" in the Lvov Ghetto began on August 8, 1942. By the time it ended on August 23, 50,000 Jews had been sent to the Belzec extermination camp and murdered.
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