Landscape photo of the memorial grounds: stone and concrete path cuts through a rising hillside, vast areas covered with ash and gravel are over both its sides. The peaceful open scenery invokes the aura of seriousness.
09.04.1942|Between 650 and 800 Jews from the town of Lubartów near Lublin were deported to the German Nazi extermination camp SS-Sonderkommando #Belzec and murdered in the gas chambers. #Holocaust
Black and white photograph of three men wearing coats and hats stand together solemnly. They have the Star of David badges on their chests.
31.03.1942|Ca. 1500 Jews were deported from Lublin to the German Nazi extermination camp SS-Sonderkommando #Belzec. Among them there was Henryk Bekker: engineer, architect, head of the Lublin’s Jewish council. 📷From the left: Marek Alten, Salomon Kestenberg, Henryk Bekker #Holocaust
Rusty metal letters on a concrete background spelling the name Lwow (Lviv) in Polish and Hebrew or Yiddish as part of the memorial.
27.03.1942|A Transport of 1648 Jews departed from Lwów (Lviv) in the Galicia District to the German Nazi extermination camp SS-Sonderkommando #Belzec. They were all murdered shortly upon arrival. #Holocaust
25.03.1942|Transport of around 1,000 Jews departed from Drohobycz (Drohobych) to the German Nazi extermination camp SS-Sonderkommando #Belzec. They were murdered in the gas chambers shortly after their arrival at the railway ramp. #Holocaust
„Euthanasie“-Täter aus den Tötungsanstalten #Bernburg, #Sonnenstein, #Hartheim, #Grafeneck, #Brandenburg und der Zentrale in der Tiergartenstr. 4 in #Berlin kamen bei der Vernichtung von über 1,8 Millionen Jüdinnen:Juden in #Belzec, #Sobibor und #Treblinka zum Einsatz. Einer davon:
19.03.1942|Transport of around 1,000 Jewish victims was sent from Rawa Ruska to the German Nazi extermination camp SS-Sonderkommando #Belzec. One woman escaped from the train. Nearly all deportees were immediately murdered in the gas chambers just after their arrival. #Holocaust
17.03.1942|The first transports with Jewish victims sent from the Podzamcze ghetto in Lublin and the ghetto in Lviv arrived at the German Nazi extermination camp SS-Sonderkommando #Belzec. Operation “Reinhardt” began, eventually claiming 2,000,000 lives of primarily Polish Jews.
17.02.1915|Maurycy Feuerstein was born. War interrupted his studies at the Higher School of Economics in Kraków. He worked in a carpenter’s workshop at the Kołomyja ghetto. In September 1942 he was deported to SS-Sonderkommando #Belzec and murdered in the gas chambers. #Holocaust
January 1942|Christian Wirth brought the first Trawnikimänner to the German Nazi death camp SS-Sonderkommando #Belzec. At first they were tasked with digging mass graves and masking the camp during its construction. Later they worked as sentry guards and escorted the victims into the gas chambers.
10.12.1926|Sara Goldbaum was born in Lublin. She was detained in the Podzamcze ghetto together with her parents: Srul and Chaja. The Goldbaums were deported during the ghetto liquidation in spring 1942 and murdered in the German Nazi extermination camp SS-Sonderkommando #Belzec.
05.12.1942|Around 3,000 Jews were deported from Przemyślany (Peremyshliany) in the Galicia District to the German Nazi extermination camp SS-Sonderkommando #Belzec. The transport also included some people who had been herded in from Gliniany (Hlyniany) several days earlier. #Holocaust
05.12.1878|Bezalel Elisza Wertheimer was born in Gorlice. With his wife Gusta (Engländer) they had 3 children: Helena, Henryka, Sabina. Wertheimers were deported from the Kraków ghetto to SS-Sonderkommando #Belzec and murdered in the gas chambers in late October 1942.📷Bezalel, Gusta, Sabina, 1938.
04.12.1942| #Holocaust: During the 1942 Hanukkah between 1,000 and 1,200 Jews were deported from Brzeżany (Berezhany) to the German Nazi extermination camp SS-Sonderkommando #Belzec and murdered in the gas chambers.
Lianka Fleischhackerová
Am heutigen Tag im Jahr 1928 wurde ein tschechoslowakisches jüdisches Mädchen geboren. Am 28. April 1942 wurde sie nach #Theresienstadt und am 30. April 1942 ins Ghetto #Zamošč deportiert. Laut einer Mitgefangenen kam sie im Vernichtungslager #Belzec ums Leben.
24.11.1904|Malka Ester Domb was born in Ulanów. She moved to Cologne and then to Antwerp. Her family was displaced to the Lublin district and returned to Ulanów over time. From there Malka and her relatives were deported to SS-Sonderkommando #Belzec and murdered.📷Malka with her daughters and sister.
28.10.1942| #Holocaust: ca. 4500 Jews were deported from the Kraków ghetto to the German Nazi extermination camp SS-Sonderkommando #Belzec. Among them there was Henryk Edelist, son of Maria and Jakób. He was 15 years old.
Rustic metal letters spelling the town name Drohobycz in Polish and Yiddish, placed on concrete, with ashen rocks visible in the background.
23.10.1942| #Holocaust: 3459 Jews from Drohobycz (Drohobych), Borysław (Boryslav), Stryj (Stryi) and Sambor (Sambir) in the Galicia District were deported to the German Nazi extermination camp SS-Sonderkommando #Belzec.
Rusty metal letters spelling the town name of Turka in Polish and Yiddish, on a concrete background. The horizon is covered with ashen rocks that are in the centre of the memorial.
22.10.1942| #Holocaust: Around 2,000 Jews were deported from Turka near Lviv (Galicia District) to the German Nazi extermination camp SS-Sonderkommando #Belzec and murdered in the gas chambers.
Black and white 1941 photograph depicts people in a town street of Szczebrzeszyn, some are gathered and chatting. A grand synagogue building is visible in the background. The photo comes from the fotopolska.eu website.
22.10.1942| #Holocaust: around 1,300 Jews from Szczebrzeszyn and Zwierzyniec (Lublin District) were deported from the train station in Szczebrzeszyn to the German Nazi extermination camp SS-Sonderkommando #Belzec. Among those victims there was a local dentist named Borensztajn and her two daughters.
Rusty metal letters on a concrete background, spelling the town name of Skałat in Polish and Yiddish. It is surrounded by ashen stone field. The photo evokes a sombre tone of the memorial.
21.10.1942| #Holocaust: Around 4,000 Jews were deported from Zbaraż (Zbarazh) and Skałat (Skálat) in the Galicia District to the German Nazi extermination camp SS-Sonderkommando #Belzec and murdered upon arrival.
02.10.1884|Józef Henryk Sandauer was born in Sambor. He graduated from the Jan Kazimierz university in Lwów and became a lawyer. He married Franciszka Czoban and the couple had a son – Feliks. Józef Sandauer was deported to SS-Sonderkommando #Belzec in August 1942. #Holocaust
02.10.1942|Deportation from Działoszyce and Miechów: ca. 500 Jews were killed on site; up to 3,000 others were deported to the German Nazi extermination camp SS-Sonderkommando #Belzec. Among them there were Elimeloch and Raizla-Bela Klainman with their children Debora, Rut, Mojżesz.
Vintage photo of three adults and one child in formal attire on stone steps, with leafy trees in the background. The mood is reminiscent and formal.
This photo of the Polish-Jewish Kornfeld family was taken on 30.09.1938. During WWII they lived in Kraków. Josef (left) was murdered in SS-Sonderkommando #Belzec in September 1942. His wife Hana survived. She’s with their little son Ziga (centre-right). He perished in #Auschwitz in May 1944.
30.09.1942|Nearly 6000 Jews from Tarnopol and several surrounding settlements in the Galicia District were deported to the German Nazi extermination camp SS-Sonderkommando #Belzec and murdered in the gas chambers. #Holocaust
Ook #bontebal gaat voor het #madagaskarplan. En als Madagascar niet kan? Tsja. #babijar en dan #belzec. Het is kwart over 1939.
26.09.1942| Around 5,000 Jews from Borszczów (Borshchiv) and several nearby settlements around Tarnopol (Ternopil) in the Galicia district were deported to the German Nazi extermination camp SS-Sonderkommando #Belzec and murdered in the gas chambers. #Holocaust
Het #madagaskarplan. En toen dat niet doorging? Toen kwam. #babijar en daarna #belzec.
Het is kwart over 1939
They ran a #t4. Let's make people disappear that you consider as useless. See if you get away with it. The next stage is #belzec. Killingfactories.
#unitedsatan #kimjongtrump #agentkrasnow #trump
Rusty metal letters forming the town name of “Brody” spelled in Polish and Hebrew, placed against a concrete memorial surface. The background features a few trees and a landscape of ashen rocks, evoking a sombre tone.
19.09.1942|Around 2,800 Jews were deported from Brody and Podkamień (Galicia district) to the German Nazi extermination camp SS-Sonderkommando #Belzec and murdered in the gas chambers. #Holocaust
Sepia-toned portrait of Fryderyka Feuerstein: an older woman with short hair, wearing a striped blouse with a white collar. She has a serious, thoughtful expression.
Black and white portrait of Maurycy Feuerstein: a man in a suit and tie, looking slightly left. The image has a vintage tone, capturing a serious, contemplative expression.
07.09.1942|Deportation of 4769 Jews from the ghetto in Kołomyja to the German Nazi extermination camp SS-Sonderkommando #Belzec. Around 300 people were killed on site and all deportees were murdered in the gas chambers. Among them were Fryderyka and Maurycy Feuerstein. #Holocaust
