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.

During the lecture was presented a temporary exhibition entitled "Res non humana - inhuman thing. The German occupation of the Zamość Region 1939-1944". A total of about 600 inmates were acquainted with the contents of the exhibition, while about 120 people took part in lectures addressing issues related to the German occupation of the Zamość region.

The Zamość region was included by the Germans in their plan for the Germanization and colonization of Central and Eastern Europe, which included the displacement of Poles and the bringing in of German settlers in their place. The mass displacement of Zamość villages, which began in the fall of 1942, activated the Polish armed underground. The organized resistance of the inhabitants became known as the Zamość Uprising. The Zamość region also played a tragic role in the extermination of Jews by the German Nazis. One of the death camps of Operation Reinhardt was located in Bełżec.

The aim of the joint program of the Museum and the Prison Service is to shape appropriate moral and social attitudes by teaching about the crimes of World War II.