Bełżec (approximate Polish pronunciation bew-zhets) was the first of the Nazi German extermination camps created for implementing Operation Reinhard during the Holocaust. Operating in 1942, the camp was situated in occupied Poland about half a mile south of the local railroad station Bełżec in the Lublin district of the General Government. At least 434,500 Jews were killed at Bełżec, and an unknown number of other Poles and members of the Roma people, a… (More on Belzec)