The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaitsi to Bełżec extermination camp.

Belzec was a Nazi German extermination camp in occupied Poland. It was built by the SS for the purpose of implementing the secretive Operation Reinhard, the plan to murder all Polish Jews, a major part of the "Final Solution", the overall Nazi effort to complete the genocide of all European Jews. Before Germany's defeat put an end to this project, more than six million Jews had been murdered in the Holocaust.

The camp operated from 17 March 1942 to the end of June 1943. It was situated about 500 m (1,600 ft) south of the local railroad station of Bełżec, in the new Lublin District of the General Government territory of German-occupied Poland. The burning of exhumed corpses on five open-air grids and bone crushing continued until March 1943.

Lubelszczyna marzec 1942 Żydzi w drodze do obozu zagłady w Bełżcu
Lubelszczyna marzec 1942 Żydzi w drodze do obozu zagłady w Bełżcu (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
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WW2-Holocaust-Poland (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Romani prisoners at Belzec labor camp
Romani prisoners at Belzec labor camp (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Deportacja Żydów z Zamościa do obozu zagłady w Bełżcu
Deportacja Żydów z Zamościa do obozu zagłady w Bełżcu (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

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Sources and further reading: Wikipedia — Belzec extermination camp, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Yom Kippur, Pidhaitsi (CC BY-SA). Images: Wikimedia Commons.