On June 24, 2015, the last museum lesson before holidays was held as part of the “Accessible Culture” – a programme of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

In the classes called “Fate of children in the Majdanek concentration camp” participated students of the Lower Secondary School in Cholewianka. Their stay at Majdanek started with a lecture combined with a multimedia presentation on various groups of children deported to KL Lublin. It included biographies of four of them – Henryk Żytomirski, Halina Birenbaum, Janina Buczek-Różańska and Piotr Kiriszczenko. The participants in the classes were then divided into six groups. They read fragments of accounts by Halina Birenbaum on her stay in the Majdanek camp. Next students visited the grounds of the former German concentration camp, especially places directly related to the fates of the deported children, and the historical exhibition. The young people actively took part in guiding and shared with their peers knowledge they acquired while reading the accounts by former Majdanek prisoners.

Between April and June 2015, the State Museum at Majdanek held more than a dozen museum lessons as part of the programme “Accessible Culture.” Nearly half a thousand students from the Lublin Region took part in them.

The free classes start again in September 2015. The schools are highly welcomed to participate in them. For further details please visit “Education” on www.majdanek.eu