The former area of the Belzec extermination camp.

On entering the memorial it is obvious that there is nothing remaining of the original camp. The museum supported by the United States Holocaust Museum have built a large structure over the entire former camp.

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Crevice Road. Symbolic "death road"
(portion of the memorial in Bełżec).  

The central feature of the memorial is the cemetery-burial grounds divided by Crevice Road. At the entrance of the Crevice Road is cemented rails built in place of the original unloading ramp, lead in all directions from which the Jews were brought in.  

 

Cemented rails built in the place of the
original unloading ramp, at the entrance
of Crevice Road

Crevice Road provides a path through the Cemetery-burial grounds bordered by two parallel wall reliefs. Under the ground passage built in place of former "Sluice" into the gas chambers, evokes the feelings of no escape

Crevice Road taken from the entrance
to the memorial

Crevice road nearing the stone wall

The culminating point of the Crevice Road is the Stone wall. The Stone wall is made of monumental white granite blocks.