30.01.2025
We invite historians, researchers, regionalists, and students, for our academic conference – “Trains of Death – Railway Transports to the German Death Camps. State of Knowledge and Research Postulates – that is going to take place at the Museum in Memorial in Sobibór on 8-10 September.
27.01.2025
On January 27, 2025, the projection hall of the Museum and Memorial Site in Bełżec hosted a unique artistic event as part of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day observances. The organizers – the Museum in Bełżec and the Bełżec Municipality – invited participants to reflect and honor the memory of Holocaust victims.
13.01.2025
The German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated on 27 January 1945. In recognition of that event, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed it as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
24.01.2025
On 26 January the director of the State Museum at Majdanek dr Tomasz Kranz was granted the National Leadership Award by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The American institution appreciated his long-time engagement in the Holocaust remembrance as well as the input in the field of education in Poland.
08.01.2025
It is time to draw up a summary of 2024. It was primarily marked by two important anniversaries: the 80th jubilee of the State Museum at Majdanek and the 20th anniversary of creating the Museum and Memorial in Bełżec. In July we recalled the moment when exactly 80 years passed from the final liquidation of KL Lublin.
31.12.2024
We are pleased to announce that on December 30, 2024, Hanna Wróblewska, the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, appointed Tomasz Kranz as the Director of the State Museum at Majdanek. He was appointed for a 5-year-term through a competition prcedure.
24.10.2024
On 23 October 2024, at the Lublin Conference Centre, we celebrated the 80th anniversary of the State Museum at Majdanek. It was a spontaneous occasion for a meeting within the circle of museologists and friends of the Museum, reminding of the institution’s history, presentation of present-day activity as well as honouring the most deserving employees.
16.05.2024
In October 1944, just three months after the liquidation of the Majdanek German Nazi concentration camp, a Museum was established on its former grounds. It was the world’s first Memorial dedicated to the victims of World War II.
06.05.2024
Museum and Memorial in Sobibór received a special commendation in the European Museum of the Year Award 2024 (EMYA) prestigious contest. The award ceremony gala was held on 4 May in Portimao, Portugal. 50 European museum were nominated including 5 candidates from Poland.
01.05.2024
During another ”Museum in Action” seminar, we reflected on how to prepare the text for the editorial process and how to plan the works on creating an exhibition. The course aims to improve the skills of our staff and to pursue the goals forming the foundation of our institution more effectively.
22.04.2024
Nearly 15 speakers were invited to participate in the on-line conference "Museum exhibitions in the Holocaust memorials: from Bełżec to Sobibór" organized on June 4–5, 2024. It is dedicated to a broader context of influence and perception of exhibitions in the museums established on the former camp grounds. Register and take part in our event. It will be held in English, under honorary patronage of the National Institute of Museums.
15.04.2024
On 15 April 2024, the inaugural session of the Council of the State Museum at Majdanek took place. Appointed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage for the 2024–2028 term of office, a new Council has a task to assess the Museum activities and approve its plans.
25.03.2024
On the National Day of Remembrance of Poles Rescuing Jews under German Occupation, students from the Zespół Szkół in Ruda Różaniecka took part in educational workshops entitled "I did it for you... to save you." This extraordinary meeting gave us the opportunity to deepen our knowledge of the Holocaust and to draw attention to the sacrifice of Polish heroes who risked their lives to save Jews from extermination.
19.03.2024
The Museum and Memorial Site in Bełżec has become a place of reflection and contemplation on the tragic events of Aktion Reinhardt. The commemoration of the victims began with the opening of the exhibition "Deportations to the Bełżec Extermination Camp." Photographs, documents, and survivor testimonies provided a powerful glimpse into the experiences of those condemned to deportation and death.
06.03.2024
On March 6, we celebrate the European Day of Remembrance for Righteous. This holiday, established by the European Parliament in 2012, aims to honor the memory of people who opposed totalitarian regimes and mass crimes in the 20th and 21st centuries. In particular, we want to pay tribute to those who risked their own lives to save others and defended human dignity.
29.01.2024
27 January marks the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Museum and Memorial Site in Bełżec once again joined the celebration of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
25.01.2024
On the International Holocaust Remembrance Day we invoke the memory of the six million Jewish women, children and men – victims of transports, inhuman living conditions in the locked ghettos, executions, manhunts, round-ups, extermination in the gas chambers. The central and the most bloody stage of the Holocaust was perpetrated in the General Government under the codename “Einsatz Reinhardt.”
22.01.2024
The German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated on 27 January 1945. In recognition of that event, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed it as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It constitutes an opportunity to even more eagerly reflect on the tragic fate of Jews – victims of hatred murdered during World War II – as well as on the current situation of humanity in the 21st century.
12.12.2023
This week, an open-air photography workshop was organized on the Museum grounds for students of the Bernardo Morando State High School of Fine Arts in Zamość. The young people learned about the history of the former extermination camp and the symbolism of the monumental establishment that was created on the post-camp grounds.
11.12.2023
This fall the Museum and Memorial Site in Belzec held a series of four meetings with inmates at the Penitentiary Institutions in Zamość, Hrubieszow, and Chelm, as well as the Detention Center in Krasnystaw.
27.11.2023
Recently we finished our nearly two-year-long campaign of commemorating the 80th anniversary of operation "Reinhardt." Between March 2022 and November 2023 we held nearly 50 various projects and activities that aimed at raising awareness about the genocide of nearly 2,000,000 Jews.
22.11.2023
We are glad to announce that our latest book project has been accomplished. “The Infrastructure of Operation Reinhardt” is now available to the English-speaking readers
27.10.2023
On 26 October 2023, a ceremony commemorating the Roma and Sinti, victims of the 1940 Belzec labor camp, was held in Belzec.
25.10.2023
On 24 October 2023, the Museum and Memorial Site in Belzec was visited by teachers, educators and employees of cultural institutions who came as part of a study tour organized by the The Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies. The visit was held within the framework of the Robert Kuvalek seminar entitled. "The Holocaust in Western Ukraine and Eastern Poland".
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