View photos



On March 27, the Way of the Cross started from the Gate-Monument. It has been organized by the Youth Chaplaincy of Lublin Archdiocese and the State Museum at Majdanek for the 16th time.

Stations of the Way of the Cross were located along the “black road,” then participants passed the exhibition barracks, went through field III and reached the crematorium and the Mausoleum. Each station, located in the most important places for the functioning of the camp, were provided with a historical commentary and fragments of the audio story of Wanda Ossowska, a Majdanek prisoner since January 1943 till April 1944. At the feet of the Mausoleum, the faithful listened to the words directed to Wanda Ossowska and all camp prisoners by Saint John Paul II who visited Majdanek in 1987: “I came here in order to pay homage to those who were killed but also to those who survived and are the witnesses of the former. Do not cease to be the witnesses of your brothers and sisters whose mortal remains were left here. As it is written on the Mausoleum, do not cease to be the warning for all the generations who come after you because you are stigmatized by the ordeal, the ordeal of peoples, not only our nation but many peoples whose names are mentioned here.”