Polish Killing & Atrocity Centers

"The Road to Paradise" ; it was called: an opening in a leafy, wooded area in the Polish Country side. Prisoners were forced to disembark, & run naked through this forest door...which led to Belzec, one of the most mysterious of the Killing Centers. The reason for its mysterious nature was that almost no records surfaced, no artifacts such as suitcases, passports or clothing remained from the victims, and structures and evidences disappeared.

There are reports¹ that one of the main forms of killing in Belzec was electrocution. Jewish victims were herded into a room with a steel floor, flooded with water. An electric current was run through, causing a painful death to the occupants. Evidence of this killing comes not only from a few surviving eyewitnesses, but also from reports of the Nazis themselves. ^1-3

Belzec was open between March 1942 & December 1942; for a rapid, clandestine mass extermination and coverup. Dismantled by May 1943¹, over 600,000 Jews and thousands of Roma and Sinti were murdered; remaining prisoners were transferred to Sobibor. Besides electrocution, three gas chambers were in operation at Belzec. Belzec was central in Aktion Reinhard, the organized effort at exterminating the Polish Jews. It's centrality of location along a railway track accounted for the ease of effort in killing well over half a million persons during the 9 months of operation.Many questions remain about Belzec, even today. After the killings, Belzec was razed and as part of Aktion 1005, corpses were burned, crushed and mass buried in graves outside the camp. The land was then turned to farmland, tended by a former guard. In the last few years, one of the hidden mass graves was discovered.