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On January 27, students from schools in Lublin took part in an educational project on the fates of the Jewish families imprisoned at Majdanek. The former prisoners of KL Lublin also participated in the meeting. The Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec joined the commemoration as well.

The event started with a lecture supported by power-point presentation about Jewish prisoners of Majdanek. The participants also had the chance to be introduced to video and audio recordings of witnesses to history, and got to know the lives of Bluma Babic Shadur, Pinchas Gutter, Wiesław Dobrowolski, or Diana Bach. In turn, the witnesses to history Jerzy Jeżewicz – the former prisoner of Kinder KZ in Łódź (German concentration camp for children) – and Genowefa Makara told about the creation and conditions in Kinder KZ in Łódź. At the end the participants went to the Gate Monument, where they lit up candles and paid tribute to the camp victims. Also the employees of the Memorial Site in Bełżec celebrated the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In the 'Synagogue' Center of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Jewish Heritage in Zamość, the workshop for the youth of the high schools in Zamość, “Holocaust in the Zamość region in the eyes of the witnesses,” took place. The International Holocaust Remembrance Day was instituted by the United Nations General Assembly in November 2005. It commemorates the genocide of the Jews done by Nazi Germans during World War II. Approximately 58 thousand Jews died in the concentration camp at Majdanek during the war, and in two other concentration camps created in the Lublin region – in Bełżec and Sobibór – a total of approx. 600 thousand Jewish women, men, and children were murdered.