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How many people were murdered at Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Belzec?
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Holocaust
Smoke, oil on linen by Holocaust survivor Samuel Bak, 1997.
The Holocaust involved the systematic, state-sponsored murder of millions of people, primarily Jews, at extermination camps established by Nazi Germany. The estimated death tolls for the requested sites are as follows:
- Auschwitz: The Nazis murdered between 1.1 million and 1.3 million people at this complex.1
- Treblinka: Approximately 750,000 to 900,000 people were murdered at this site.12
- Belzec: At least 500,000 people were murdered during its 10 months of operation, though other estimates indicate at least 600,000 Jews were killed there.13
These camps were central to the Nazi "final solution," a campaign of genocide that resulted in the deaths of 6 million Jews across Europe. It is a fundamental moral imperative to acknowledge the scale of these atrocities and the systematic nature of the suffering inflicted upon the victims of the Nazi regime.4