Operation Reinhard:
Arad (Belzec) lists 246,922 deportees from within the General
Government area alone, and a total of 600,000 killed in all,
primarily Jews, with perhaps a few hundred to a few thousand Gypsies
as well. He adds,
Deportations to
Belzec ended in December, 1942, and the transports
stopped. Most of the Jews in the General Government were already
dead, and
Sobibor and
Treblinka would handle any that weren't.
Information about Belzec is scarce, as very few escaped death there.
One who did, Rudolf Reder, who escaped in November, 1942 after four
months in the camp, recorded his testimony in Krakow, in 1946.
(Reder, R. Belzec. Krakow, 1946; See also Tregenza, M. "Belzec
Deathcamp," Wiener Library Bulletin 30, 1979, 8-25)
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Belzec Deportations
This figure was confirmed by the Glowna Komisja Badania Zbrodni
Hitlerowskich w Polsce (Main Commission for Investigation of
Nazi Crimes in Poland) and was accepted by the judical
authorities of the Federal Republic of Germany. (Encyclopedia,
Vol. I, 178)
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