This book is a comprehensive account of the Belzec death camp in Poland which was the first death camp using static gas chambers as part of the Aktion Reinhardt mass murder program. This study covers the construction and the development of the mass murder process. The story is painstakingly told from all sides, the Jewish inmates, the perpetrators and the Polish inhabitants of Belzec village, who lived near the factory of death. A major part of this work is the Jewish Roll of Remembrance, that covers the few survivors and details of some of the Jews among the many hundreds of thousands who perished in Belzec. This book is richly illustrated with historical and modern photographs, as well as documents and drawings, some of the photographs have never before been seen in public.
Chris Webb has been studying the Holocaust for over fifty years. He is the founder of the Holocaust Historical Society, in the UK, and has an extensive private archive of documents and original photographs. He has been priviledged to work with ibidem-verlag for a number of years, and they have published his books on all the Aktion Reinhardt Camps and books on Auschwitz and Chelmno. Chris has worked with the BBC, on a number of documentaries,both as a consultant and provided material from his archive. He has recently taken part in a podcast for the Ghetto Fighters House in Israel, on Belzec, which was a great honor.
