The new memorial, opened in june and sponsored by the American Jewish Committee and the Polish government, is meant to give dignity and greater prominence to the memory of Belzec's victims after the site was neglected for decades under communism. http://www.diapozytyw.pl/en/site/szoach/belzec http://polish-jewish-heritage.org/Eng/june...orial_Opens.htm http://polish-jewish-heritage.org/Eng/June...l_at_Belzec.htm
Thanks for passing this along--great news. I remember in Lanzmann's Shoah scenes of Belzec with hardly anything there. Hopefully the memorial will encourage others to visit the site.
Yes, Belzec, because of its name's similarity to Belsen, is not as well-known in the West as places like Auschwitz and Sobibor.
