In 1940, the Germans established a string of labor camps along the Bug (Buh)
River, which, until the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941,
formed the demarcation line between German- and Soviet-occupied Poland. The
headquarters of this complex was a labor camp established on the outskirts of
Belzec. SS officials forced Jews deported from Lublin District and other parts
of the Generalgouvernement to the Belzec labor camp and its subsidiary camps to
build fortifications and antitank ditches along the Bug River. The Belzec labor
camp and its subsidiaries were dismantled at the end of 1940.
In November
