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In the 10th anniversary of the foundation of the Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec the album, which summarizes several years’ research works conducted by the Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec, was published. Ewa Koper’s publication entitled “Every Victim Has Its Name” commemorates 750 people who were murdered in the Bełżec extermination camp. Their fate was illustrated by 260 photographs published in the book.

The photographic material consisting mainly of the portraits, which were taken before the war had begun, is supplemented with short biographical entries of the presented people and additional information about their relatives. The publication is divided into three chapters devoted to the fate of the people who were deported to Bełżec from Lublin, Galicia and Cracow districts. At the end of the book there is an index of people. The album “Every Victim Has Its Name” was prepared based on the questionnaires addressed to family members and relatives of the camp victims. Thanks to them, the Museum in Bełżec gathered personal data on almost three thousand people murdered in Bełżec and a lot of photographs. Since there are no historical sources with the names of the victims of the Bełżec camp, many of them remain anonymous. The album symbolically documents the Jews’ tragedy during the Holocaust and restores the memory of them. The Bełżec death camp operated from March to December 1942. As a result of the genocidal ”Operation Reinhardt,” at least 434,000 Jews were murdered by the Germans. The victims of the Bełżec camp were mainly Polish Jews from the south-eastern regions of pre-war Poland, Jews from Germany, Austria, Bohemia and Slovakia.