Report on Executions at Belzec

Belzec Document

Report on the execution of Jews at Belzec.

According to information received from a German employed at the place of execution, this place is situated at Belzec close to the railway station. It is fenced off with barbed wire. Inside and outside the fence Ukrainian sentries are posted. Executions are carried out in the following manner: a train carrying Jews, arrives at the station and is moved up to the wire fence where the guards are changed. Now the train is brought to the unloading place by German personnel. The men are taken into barracks to the right, the women to the barracks to the left, where they have to take their clothes off, ostensibly for a bath. Then both groups are driven to a third barrack with an electric floor where the execution is carried out. The bodies are taken out of the camp by railway and unloaded into a 30 m. deep ditch. This has been dug by Jews who, after they have finished the job, are executed. The Ukrainian sentries, too, are to be executed, when the work has been finished. For the present, however, they live luxuriously lavishly provided with money and jewels. They pay for instance 400 zlotys (about 16 �) for one litre of vodka and 2.000 zlotys and jewelry for a woman.