Crimes & persecution
Operation Reinhard — extermination camps begin operating
17 Mar 1942 – 4 Nov 1943 · Bełżec, Sobibór and Treblinka (General Government)
On 17 March 1942 the first transports of Jews from Lublin and Lwów arrived at the Bełżec extermination camp, opening the murder phase of Operation Reinhard, the SS plan to kill the Jews of the General Government. Sobibór began operating in May and Treblinka in July 1942. By November 1943 about 1.7 million people had been murdered in the three camps.
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