Belzec extermination camp

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Belzec_extermination_camp
GPTKB entity
Statements (34)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf concentration camp
gptkbp:area about 13 hectares
gptkbp:closed June 1943
gptkbp:commander gptkb:Christian_Wirth
gptkb:Gottlieb_Hering
gptkbp:coordinates 50.3861°N 23.4456°E
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:General_Government_(Nazi_Germany)
gptkbp:currentLocation gptkb:Poland
gptkbp:destroyedBy 1943
gptkbp:gasUsed carbon monoxide
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Belzec extermination camp
gptkbp:location gptkb:Bełżec,_Lublin_District,_General_Government,_German-occupied_Poland
gptkbp:memorial gptkb:Belzec_Memorial
gptkbp:memorialEstablished 2004
gptkbp:methodOfKilling gas chambers
gptkbp:notableSurvivor very few (less than 10 known)
gptkbp:numberOfGasChambers 6
gptkbp:opened March 1942
gptkbp:operatedBy gptkb:SS-Totenkopfverbände
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:Operation_Reinhard
gptkbp:postwarInvestigation gptkb:Soviet_and_Polish_authorities
gptkbp:prisonerLabor concentration camp
gptkbp:purpose extermination of Jews
gptkbp:relatedEvent gptkb:Holocaust
gptkb:World_War_II
gptkbp:transportedFrom gptkb:Lvov_Ghetto
gptkb:Lublin_Ghetto
gptkb:Kraków_Ghetto
other ghettos in southeastern Poland
gptkbp:victim gptkb:Jews
gptkb:Roma
approximately 434,500
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Holocaust
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4