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14.03.2022

The 80th anniversary of the first deportations of Jews to the German extermination camp in Bełżec.

The Institute of National Remembrance and the State Museum at Majdanek wish to invite everyone for a ceremony held in recognition of the 80th anniversary of the first deportations of Jews to the German extermination camp in Bełżec.

These were the first transports organised within the framework of operation “Reinhardt.” The commemorative ceremony is going to take place at 12:00, on March 15, in the Museum and Memorial in Bełżec.

The programme includes speeches, collective prayers, as well as laying wreathes and lighting candles at the Ohel Niche to honour the memory of the victims. The testimonies of witnesses and survivals are going to be read out as a supplement to the ceremony.

The German extermination camp in Bełżec was operational between March and December 1942. Within that period, at least 450,000 deportees were murdered there – primarily the Polish jews, though among the victims there were also German, Austrian, Czech, and Slovakian Jews. On March 17, 1942, the first transports of deportees arrived at the Bełżec death camp. The victims were sent there from the Lublin ghetto at Podzamcze.

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