Editing Extermination camp (section)

=== Concentration and extermination camps ===
[[File:Auschwitz Resistance 282 cropped.JPG|thumb|March to the gas chambers, one of the [[Sonderkommando photographs]] taken secretly at [[Auschwitz II]] in August 1944|right]]

At the camps of Operation Reinhard, including [[Bełżec extermination camp|Bełżec]], [[Sobibór extermination camp|Sobibór]], and [[Treblinka extermination camp|Treblinka]], trainloads of prisoners were murdered immediately after arrival in [[gas chamber]]s designed exclusively for that purpose.<ref name="YV-Reinhard-pdf" /> The mass killing facilities were developed at about the same time inside the [[Auschwitz concentration camp#Auschwitz II-Birkenau|Auschwitz II-Birkenau]] subcamp of a [[Forced labour under German rule during World War II|forced labour complex]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Grossman |first=Vasily |author-link=Vasily Grossman |year=1946 |title=The Treblinka Hell |trans-title=Треблинский ад |url=http://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/essays/grossmantreblinka46.pdf |publisher=Foreign Languages Publishing House |at=[http://dl.dropbox.com/u/47875651/TheHellOfTreblinka.html (online version)] |location=Moscow |access-date=5 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006123821/http://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/essays/grossmantreblinka46.pdf |archive-date=6 October 2014 |url-status=dead }} Originally published as [http://lib.ru/PROZA/GROSSMAN/trebl.txt ''Повести, рассказы, очерки''] [Stories, Journalism, and Essays], Moscow: [[Voenizdat]], 1958.</ref> and at the [[Majdanek concentration camp]].<ref name="YV-Reinhard-pdf"/> In most other camps prisoners were selected for slave labor first; they were kept alive on starvation rations and made available to work as required. Auschwitz, Majdanek, and Jasenovac were retrofitted with Zyklon B gas chambers and crematoria buildings as the time went on, remaining operational until war's end in 1945.<ref name="lifshitz">M. Lifshitz, ''Zionism'' [משה ליפשיץ, "ציונות"], p. 304. Compare with H. Abraham, "History of Israel and the nations in the era of Holocaust and uprising" [חדד אברהם, "תולדות ישראל והעמים בתקופת השואה והתקומה"]</ref>