Belzec Holocaust Memorial [memorial] b. March 17, 1942 d. June 30, 1943 Holocaust Memorial. Belzec was a Nazi death camp during World War II. It was the first of three killing centers (the others were Sobibor and Treblinka) built in 1942 as part of the "Operation Reinhard" program, Adolf Hitler's plan to eliminate the Jews of Europe. The complex stood outside the village of Belzec in the Lublin district of Poland. Belzec was a prototype death camp and different techniques of transport and extermination were employed to determine what was most efficient. Christian...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards) Belzec Memorial Site and Museum, Belzec, Lubelskie, Poland
Smit, Leo b. May 14, 1900 d. April 30, 1943 Composer. A major Dutch musician of the 1930s, tragically silenced by the Nazis. Smit was born in Amsterdam into a Jewish family, and studied at the Conservatory there. After graduating cum laude in 1924 he was accepted into the faculty as professor of harmony and composition, but dissatisfaction with academic life (and hostility to his early music) prompted him to seek a more stimulating atmosphere abroad. He lived in Paris from 1927 to 1934 and then in Brussels until he returned to his...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards) Sobibor Concentration Camp, Sobibor, Lubelskie, Poland
Sobibor Holocaust Memorial [memorial] b. May 5, 1942 d. November 23, 1943 Holocaust Memorial. Sobibor was an infamous Nazi death camp. Over 250,000 people, most of them Jews, were murdered here during World War II. It stood in the Lublin district of Poland, about three miles west of the Bug River, near the Ukrainian border. Sobibor was one of three killing centers (the others were Belzec and Treblinka) built in 1942 to implement Adolf Hitler's "Final Solution", the annihilation of Europe's Jews. The complex was divided into four sub-camps and surrounded by...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards) Sobibor Concentration Camp, Sobibor, Lubelskie, Poland
b. March 17, 1942 d. June 30, 1943