1942March 1942–November 1943 · Lublin region

Operation Reinhard: Bełżec and Sobibór

The Bełżec memorial: a field of dark stones over the former camp, edged with names of deported towns — Photo: Dreamcatcher25. CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Run from Lublin by the SS officer Odilo Globocnik, Operation Reinhard murdered about 1.7 million Jews, most of them from occupied Poland, in the death camps of Bełżec, Sobibór and Treblinka. Victims were gassed within hours of arrival. On 14 October 1943 prisoners at Sobibór rose up and some 300 broke out, after which the camps were razed and disguised as farms.

Holocaust & Remembrance
Jewish Heritage
Revolutions & Resistance
Lublin, Poland

Sites

Site 1: Bełżec Museum and MemorialA field of slag covering the mass graves, cut by a sunken path, and a museum.Map ↗
Site 2: Sobibór Museum and MemorialMemorial path along the route to the gas chambers, and a museum opened in 2020.Map ↗