Belzec Memorial Dedication

The Belzec Memorial and Museum was dedicated on at the site of the notorious Nazi death camp in Poland on June 3, 2004. The Belzec Memorial Project, a joint initiative of AJC and the government of Poland, with support from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, is the first effort in 60 years to preserve and protect the long ignored death camp and establish a permanent memorial to the hundreds of thousands of Jews who perished there during the Holocaust.

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[dpopiel11]

I usted to live right by there. In the small village of Zylka. My grandpa would go at night and bury the dead. My grandma said that sometimes when the wind blew in the direction towards the village you could smell the burning flesh and hair. She was brought to tears. She said the smell was horrific and that you couldn't go outside the smell was so overwhelming.

[vlad007tepes]

In Belzec the Nazis crime was perfectly done.... Just 2 prisoners survived the war. One of them was killed shortly after the war by Polish antisemits. So there remained just one person who could tell us what happened at that horrible days. There are more testimonies from former SS-men than from prisoners.

[Boldenberg]

@mandelbaums "Ninety-nine per cent of what we know we do not actually have the physical evidence to prove . . . it has become part of our inherited knowledge. "

[Karrakan]

@vlad007tepes Not to mention that the other survivor was in his 60's and died a couple of years later in Canada as well. So we havent had a single living survivor from Belzec ever since it turned into a extermination camp.

[mandelbaums]

Why has there never been anything other than written and verbal testimony, plus a few drawings to support the claim that hundreds of thousands of cremated jews are buried at Belzec?

[19april1943]

I found this a very moving ceremony. It took such a lot time for this.

Such a little known camp where such huge atrocities were committed.

Yet again I read comment of deniers here also.

Can the American Jewish Council not block these comment and erase the ones already placed? These comment cannot/should not be protected under the flag of freedom of speech. They are insults. Pure and simple.

[zevmandel]

All I can do is repeat the haunting words of my cousin (z"l) as she spoke about this memorial finally being built: "At least now, nobody can walk on my mother's bones.".

My cousin managed to escape from the train to Belzec on that 28 October 1942. She and her sister survived unedr a farmer's barn. Her mother, 2 younger sisters and extended family perished (youngest was age 6).

[harrypottersucks12]

@waterloo2you you liv e in waterloo iowa?

cause i do

[Tomislavv2]

Despite the faact that Nazis tried to destroy all evidences of this most horific place the unberned bodies of tens of thousands out of 500 000 people killed here were excavated in 1997-98.Acording to offitial German documentation 434,508 Jews were perished here while

2 Jewish persons is known to have survived

[chasing91a]

"waterloo2you" and "40acremule"...isnt it funny there are documents proving the camp existed?.....you have to be a moron to think otherwise

[BlackCountryPuddler]

Catch a plane and train to the village of Belzec. Go into one of the pubs on the main drag at ten on a Friday night and tell the Polish laborers nobody died there ...nobody was gassed. Only wait until they have had a few Okocim. Film it and put it on here LOL .When they patch you up at the local Hozpital... pull your head out of your arse. LOL We will be all ears. Until then keep your spew to yourself ... numbnuts We ain't interested in your crap. Or you. You intellectual diaper stain.Go there!

[alanheath]

Everyone says this and for kilometres around.  Zylka is really close - witnesses from as far as Lubaczew knew about it.