Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team A Review By
Historians: Robin O’Neil, Salisbury and Michael Tregenza,
Lublin. Acknowledgment to The Torun Team of archaeologists and
the cartographer, Billy Rutherford. Published with the exclusive
permission of the author The investigation carried out at Bełżec
by leading archaeologists was historically unique, as no similar
investigations had been carried out at the other two designated
pure death camps of Sobibór and Treblinka. The magnitude of what
occurred in Bełżec has never been fully described in the
historical literature until now. According to previous studies,
which have always been inhibited by lack of eye-witness
evidence, several hundred thousand Jews perished in Bełżec. The
archaeological investigations confirm by overwhelming evidence
that mass murder was committed here on an unprecedented scale
and that there was a determined attempt to conceal the enormity
of the crime. In this the Nazis failed. The material unearthed
at Bełżec not only confirmed t