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Events on Tuesday 17 March 1942 1
1942Deportations to Belzec beginOperation Reinhard extermination camps start killingTransports of Jews from the Lublin ghetto to the newly built Belzec extermination camp began. Belzec was the first of the three Operation Reinhard camps, followed by Sobibor and Treblinka. Around 430,000 or more people were murdered there by the end of 1942.