The Reconstruction of Belzec

Of the tragedies that played out at the three Action Reinhard camps, Belzec is the most mute. There are only two known survivors of Belzec to describe what they saw and experienced. One of the men, R. Reder, wrote a book published in Crakow in 1946. the second, named Chaim Herszman, was a witness before a Polish commission set up to investigate German war crimes. Herszmen had escaped from a train transporting him and last Jewish workers to Sobibor for execution Thet were being carried from from Belzec after the demolition of that camp. Hirszman lived to see the end of Nazism and had completed part of his deposition beore the Polish commission when it adjourned. He was to return the next day to complete his testimony. He never made it; he was murdered by Polish anti-Semites. Other first hand testimony exists from Polish and German Sources. The former were very restricted in the time and place they had to observe. The latter suffer from the obvious interest they had had in limiting their culpability.

Footage of Death Camp Liberations

November 20, 2010. Added a new multimedia section. We began with some gripping footage of Death Camp Liberations to include a documentary by Alfred Hitchcock.

Online Memorial Sites Forum

July 8, 2010. Added a link to Online Memorial Sites Forum. See item 34 at Links.

Official Sites of Camp Museums

January 23, 2010. Updated the Links page. See item 1 under "Official Sites of Camp Museums".