Museum is located on site of the former extermination camp in Bełżec. It consists of the memorial place – a road hidden between the slag fields and multimedia museum showing histories of the Jews murdered here.
Museum and Memorial in Bełżec was established in 2004. It is a branch of the Public Museum of Majdanek in Lublin. Work on commemorating the victims of extermination camp in Bełżec lasted from 1997. Museum of Holocaust in Washington took part in it, while donors from USA contributed half of the costs of its construction.
Project was selected in a competition. It is a poignant and ascetic installation. Through a field covered with a slag leads a road. Along the road there are concrete walls, that make a person walking down the road feel like in a cage. A road leads to the wall with a quotation from a poem of one the Jewish poets “ Ground, don't you harbor my blood....” Around the field, concrete tables were set with polish and Jewish names of towns, from which transports to Bełżec were coming. Next to the memorial place, there is a Museum. The stories of the picked prisoners were shown by the means of multimedia. A few items and documents found were displayed there.
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