The Belzec Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance
This book is a comprehensive account of the Belzec death camp in Poland, which was the first death camp to use static gas chambers as part of the Aktion Reinhardt mass murder program. It covers the construction and the development of the mechanisms of mass murder. The story is painstakingly told from all sides—the Jewish inmates, the perpetrators, and the Polish inhabitants of the village of Belzec, who lived near the factory of death. A major part of this work is the Jewish Roll of Remembrance, which covers the few survivors and the lives of some of the Jews among the many hundreds of thousands who perished in Belzec. The book is richly illustrated with historical and modern photographs, some of which are previously unpublished, as well as documents and drawings.
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The Belzec Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance
This book is a comprehensive account of the Belzec death camp in Poland, which was the first death camp to use static gas chambers as part of the Aktion Reinhardt mass murder program. It covers the construction and the development of the mechanisms of mass murder. The story is painstakingly told from all sides—the Jewish inmates, the perpetrators, and the Polish inhabitants of the village of Belzec, who lived near the factory of death. A major part of this work is the Jewish Roll of Remembrance, which covers the few survivors and the lives of some of the Jews among the many hundreds of thousands who perished in Belzec. The book is richly illustrated with historical and modern photographs, some of which are previously unpublished, as well as documents and drawings.
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The Belzec Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance

The Belzec Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance

The Belzec Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance

The Belzec Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance

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This book is a comprehensive account of the Belzec death camp in Poland, which was the first death camp to use static gas chambers as part of the Aktion Reinhardt mass murder program. It covers the construction and the development of the mechanisms of mass murder. The story is painstakingly told from all sides—the Jewish inmates, the perpetrators, and the Polish inhabitants of the village of Belzec, who lived near the factory of death. A major part of this work is the Jewish Roll of Remembrance, which covers the few survivors and the lives of some of the Jews among the many hundreds of thousands who perished in Belzec. The book is richly illustrated with historical and modern photographs, some of which are previously unpublished, as well as documents and drawings.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783838208664
Publisher: ibidem Press
Publication date: 03/29/2016
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 5.80(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Chris Webb has been studying the Holocaust for over forty years. This is his second book on one of the Aktion Reinhardt death camps. He is a research associate for the Centre of Fascist, Anti-Fascist, and Post-Fascist Studies at Teesside University.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii

Author's Introduction xiii

Abbrevations used in the Footnotes xv

Part I The Hell Called Belzec xix

Chapter I Aktion Reinhardt: An Overview 1

Chapter II The Labor Camps In the Belzec Area 11

Chapter III Construction of the Death Camp November 1941-February 1942 17

Chapter IV Recruitment into Aktion Reinhardt: T4 & Trawniki 23

Chapter V Descent into Mass Murder: The First Phase March-June 1942 33

Chapter VI Construction of the New Gas Chambers-Camp Expansion: Second Phase, June-July 1942 43

Chapter VII The Killing Frenzy Visit of Kurt Gerstein and Wilhelm Pfannenstiel & The Deportations from Lvov-August 1942 49

Chapter VIII Jewish Work Brigades 61

Chapter IX Transports of Death: Eyewitness Accounts 67

Chapter X The End of the Slaughter 79

Chapter XI Exhumation and Cremation November 1942-March 1943 83

Chapter XII The Final Days 87

Part II Survivors, Victims, Perpetrators, and the Aftermath 91

Chapter XIII Jewish Survivors and Victims 93

Chapter XIV The Perpetrators 155

Chapter XV Wartime Reports About the Death Camp 185

Chapter XVI The Long Road to justice 191

Chapter XVII The Paintings of Waclaw Kolodziejcyk 199

Chapter XVIII The Number of Victims 203

Epilogue 205

Illustrations and Sources 207

Drawings, Maps, and Sources 237

Documents and Sources 243

Appendix 1 261

Appendix 2 265

Appendix 3 271

Selected Bibliography 273

Archival Sources 277

Acknowledgements 279

Index of Names 281

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