Modern Bezlec Death Camp Memorial Path (Bełżec)

Rather than memorialize the victims with a single sculpture, the artists designed a walkway leading from the railroad unloading ramp site at level ground to (in fact, INto) the hillside containing the WWII-era mass graves. The Crevasse-Road memorial pathway envelops the visitor and also symbolically evokes the experience of the original victims who were herded at gunpoint along the "Sliuce" walkway-trench to their doom at the gas chamber.

The mass graves are covered-over with the circa 2004 rectangular Stone Pile, a layer of ash cinder-clinker from industrial furnaces.

The memorial walkway mostly follows the footprint of the camp's Felix Street, one of the few hard-topped roads in the Camp II area (where ground was often soft with putrid mud from subsidence in the mass graves). The new memorial walkway thus avoids disturbing old mass graves. It ends at a monumental stone slab-tablet area (Ohel Niche).

Unlike the original victims, the memorial visitors get to escape ---by way of stairs which lead to a pathway along the Stone Pile's edges. Along the edge path are the names of municipalities from which victims were deported to Belzec.

Where possible, original trees from the WWII era were preserved in-location ---and respectfully nicknamed "Witnesses".

Artist-designers included the sculptors Andrzej Sołyga, Zdzisław Pidek, and Marcin Roszczyk.