First Jews from Lvov Ghetto Gassed at Belzec: The Holocaust Accelerates
Nazi forces transported the first Jewish victims from the Lvov Ghetto to the Belzec death camp, where they were murdered in gas chambers disguised as shower rooms within hours of arrival. Belzec would kill an estimated 500,000 Jews by December 1942, making it the third-deadliest extermination camp in the Holocaust. The systematic industrial murder of the Lvov Jews demonstrated the full operational scale of the Final Solution.
March 17, 1942
84 years ago
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