What they went through
Jews were the main people to come to Belzec. They would be transported from certain ghettos all over the country by cattle cars. 40-60 cattle cars on each train held approximently 2-2,500 Jews. These transports would come 2-3 times each day. When they got there, the men would be separtated from the women and children. The men would go off to one building and the women and children to go to a different one. When the women got to the building, they were forced to take off all of their clothes and shave their heads. The men would then meet up with the women in a place called "the tube", which was a tunnel surrounded by barbed wire leading up to the gas chambers. When they were all piled in, 1,200 of them at a time, they waited for a "shower". They would all die within 30 minutes, then the soldiers would open the doors and bury all of the dead bodies into mass graves.