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1940
Poland
Antigypsyism

Creation of labour camp in Bełżec

The Bełżec labor camp operated from May to November 1940 as part of a network of forced-labor sites created by the Germans in the General Government. Prisoners included Jews, Roma and Sinti, and Poles. They were forced to build an anti-tank trench on the German-Soviet border. Conditions were severe, causing many deaths from hunger, disease, exhaustion, and brutality. Bełżec camp was reorganized into death camp in 1942.

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