Newsgroups: alt.revisionism Subject: Holocaust Almanac: Belzec's Gas Chambers Expand Followup-To: alt.revisionism Organization: The Old Frog's Almanac, Vancouver Island, CANADA Keywords: Belzec,Reder Archive/File: holocaust/poland/reinhard/belzec belzec.gas2 Last-modified: 1993/03/05 [Beginning in June, 1942] ... "The old wooden building with its three gas chambers was dismantled, and on the same site a bigger, more solid building was erected. The new building was 24 meters long and 10 meters wide. It had six gas chambers, each of them 4 x 8 meters. (According to other sources, the size of the new gas chambers was 4 x 5 meters each.) Toward the middle of July, the new gas chambers were operational." <1> "Rudolf Reder, one of the two survivors of Belzec described the gas chambers: The building was low, long and wide. It was of grey concrete, had a flat roof covered with pap, and above it a net covered with green branches. Three steps without railings, 1 meter wide, led into the building. In front of the building was a big flower pot with colorful flowers and a clearly written sign reading: 'Bade und Inhalationstraume' [Bath and Inhalation Rooms]. The steps led to a dark, long, and empty corridor, 1.5 meters wide. On the right and left of the corridor were doors to the gas chambers. These were wooden doors, 1 meter wide.... The corridor and the chambers were lower than ordinary rooms, no higher than 2 meters. On the opposite wall of each chamber was a removable door, 2 meters wide, from which the gassed bodies were thrown out. Outside the building was a shed, 2 x 2 meters, where the engine for the gas was installed. The chambers were 1.5 meters above ground level." <2> "These new gas chambers could absorb over 2,000 people at a time, the capacity of a transport of about twenty freight cars. Belzec was now ready to renew activity on an even larger scale.." <1> Yad Vashem Archives, TR-10/583, p. 1; Yad Vashem Archives, TR-10/517, p.34 <2> YVA TR-10/517 (Belzec-Oberhauser), Band 8, p. 1514 Excerpted from....---------------------------------------------- BELZEC, SOBIBOR, TREBLINKA - the Operation Reinhard Death Camps Indiana University Press - Yitzhak Arad, 1987. ISBN 0-253-3429-7 ----------------------------------------------------------------Individual files are now available via listserv. Send your request to: listserv@oneb.almanac.bc.ca, and include the single word 'index' for a list of available articles.
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