This book is a comprehensive account of the Belzec death camp in Poland, which was the first death camp to use static gas chambers as part of the Aktion Reinhardt mass murder program. It covers the construction and the development of the mechanisms of mass murder. The story is painstakingly told from all sidesthe Jewish inmates, the perpetrators, and the Polish inhabitants of the village of Belzec, who lived near the factory of death. A major part of this work is the Jewish Roll of Remembrance, which covers the few survivors and the lives of some of the Jews among the many hundreds of thousands who perished in Belzec. The book is richly illustrated with historical and modern photographs, some of which are previously unpublished, as well as documents and drawings. -- amazon.com.

Forword -- Author's introduction -- Abbreviations used in the footnotes -- Part I. The Hell Called Belzec. Chapter I. Aktion Reinhardt : an overview -- Chapter II. The labor camps in the Belzec area -- Chapter III. Construction of the death camp : November 1941 - February 1942 -- Chapter IV. Recruitment into Aktion Reinhardt : T4 & Trawniki -- Chapter V. Descent into mass murder : the first phase March-June 1942 -- Chapter VI. Construction of the new gas chambers - Camp Expansion : second phase, June-July 1942 -- Chapter VII. The killing frenzy visit of Kurt Gerstein and Wilhelm Pfannenstiel & the deportations of Lvov - August 1942 -- Chapter VIII. Jewish work brigades -- Chapter IX. Transports of death : eyewitness accounts -- Chapter X. The end of the slaughter -- Chapter XI. Exhumation and cremation : November 1942 - March 1943 -- Chapter XII. The final days -- Part II. Survivors, Victims, Perpetrators, and the Aftermath. Chapter XIII. Jewish survivors and victims -- Chapter XIV. The perpetrators -- Chapter XV. Wartime reports about the death camp -- Chapter XVI. The long road to justice -- Chapter XVII. The paintings of Waclaw Kolodziejcyk -- Chapter XVIII. The number of victims -- Epilogue -- Illustrations and sources -- Drawings, maps, and sources -- Documents and sources -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3.