Chris Webb

This book is a comprehensive account of the Belzec death camp in Poland which was the first death camp using static gas chambers as part of the Aktion Reinhardt mass murder program. This study covers the construction and the development of the mass murder process. The story is painstakingly told from all sides, the Jewish inmates, the perpetrators, and the Polish inhabitants of Belzec village, who lived near the factory of death. A major part of this work is the Jewish Roll of Remembrance, that covers the few survivors and details 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, as well as documents and drawings, some of the photographs have never before been seen in public.

Chris Webb has been studying the Holocaust for over forty years. This is the second book on one of the Aktion Reinhardt death camps. His book co-written with Michal Chocholaty on Treblinka was published by ibidem Press in 2014.

He has been involved in a number of Holocaust related websites and regularly lectures at a number of Universities. He is also a Research Associate for the Centre of Fascist, Anti-Fascist, and Post Fascist Studies at Teesside University in the UK.

„Chris Webb [hat] mit seinem Buch über das ‚Todeslager Belzec‘ die derzeit wohl ausführlichste Schilderung auf Englisch vorgelegt. Sie versteht sich als Teil einer Trilogie, in welcher ebenso Bande über die Vernichtungslager in Treblinka und – zuletzt – in Sobibor erschienen sind.“—Zeitschrift für Genozid Forschung, Heft 2, 2018