On Easter Saturday, Sunday and Monday (April 4–6), the Visitor Service Centre of the State Museum at Majdanek and the barracks with historical exhibition is closed. The Museum grounds and historical objects are available to visitors.

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The Museum has uncovered a fragment of the historical camp road that was built by the Majdanek prisoners with tombstones from Jewish cemeteries in Lublin. Apart from that in one of the exhibition barracks, there is a presentation on the history of Lublin of the occupation time.

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On March 24, a group of students from High School No. 1 in Siedlce took part in the educational workshops based on Jadwiga Ankiewicz’s biography. She was a 17-year-old inmate at Majdanek. During her 4-month stay in KL Lublin, Jadwiga was keeping a journal, in which she was describing the reality in the camp in her own, subjective way. Fortunately, while having been discharged from the camp, she avoided a search and carried her diary away from the camp under the lining of her coat. In 1998, the original diary was handed over to the Archives of the State Museum at Majdanek by Jadwiga’s family.

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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.

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On March 19 and 20, a group of German teenagers from Gesamtschule in Schermbeck, together with the Polish teenagers from High School no. 5 in Lublin, took part in the educational project devoted to the history of the KL Lublin that was held at the State Museum at Majdanek.

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On March 22, 2015, at the Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec [MMPB] a ceremony was held to commemorate the murdered Jews of Żółkiew and Rawa Ruska. On this day, MMPB hosted 45 students from Ukraine along with their teachers.

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March 15-19, 2015, the historical workshops took place at the Museum at Majdanek together with students of the Lower-Secondary School Bethel named after Friedrich von Bodelschwingh in Bielefeld and students from the High School No 5 in Lublin. The aim of the workshops was to explore the history of the German occupation in the Lublin region, especially at Majdanek concentration camp.

On March 19, 2015, about 40 students from the University of the Third Age in Tomaszów Lubelski took part in the lecture delivered by the Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec employee. The lecture was devoted to the post-war history of the grounds of the former concentration camp in Bełżec.

The sound of the Peace Bell will traditionally mark the beginning of the Way of the Cross at the area of the former concentration camp at Majdanek. The procession will start from the Gate-Monument on March 27, at 6 p.m.

The Open University of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin and the State Museum at Majdanek invite you for the free lectures aimed at lower-secondary and secondary students, which concern the history of the Majdanek concentration camp. The lessons, in the form of 45-minute lectures given by the workers of the State Museum at Majdanek, take place in the buildings of the Catholic University of Lublin.

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“LET ME TELL YOU A STORY,” this is the title of the international historic meeting organized by Zamojskie Centrum Wolontariatu [the Volunteer Centre in Zamość]. The group of its participants consisted in the youth, the representatives of youth and non-governmental organizations from Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Rumania, Turkey, Hungary and Poland. All together, they improved their knowledge about the events that took place in the Second World War in the Zamość Region.

Over 100 various titles are available in the new museum online bookshop. Among them there are mainly publications documenting the history of the German concentration camp at Majdanek and the death camps in Bełżec and Sobibór. These are the latest findings, anthologies of the memories of people who lived at that time and sources editions.

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On February 27 the last session of the MuseumCouncil in this term took place. The Chairman of the Council, Prof. Andrzej Stępnik, summed up the results of the Museum work during the past 4 years: “I would like to notice that the Museum advanced as a centre of research on contemporary history, as well as history teaching. This period of time was very fruitful. Universities are going through a severe slump – there are no funds, students turn their back on history, there are only few World War II historians (…). The Museum took over many research tasks that earlier were assigned to universities. I was impressed when I participated in the promotion of the journal ‘Zeszyty Majdanka.’ These publications differ from those in bookstores – these are erudite research papers.”

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A cyclical educational project called “Practical commemoration” carried out at the State Museum at Majdanek by students from the Gesamtschule Waltrop was awarded a Dr. Selig Auerbach prize. It has been awarded schools by the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation in Recklinghausen (North Rhine-Westphalia) since 2006. The prize is granted for the best project in making the Holocaust history more accessible, commemorating the Nazi victims, Jewish culture and religion, and Christian-Jewish relations. It will be officially awarded in March in the town hall of Recklinghausen.

Starting from March 1, barracks no. 45 with a mockup of a concentration camp at Majdanek is closed indefinitely due to renovation works.

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The latest version of the museum guide is available to download from our website. The publication “Majdanek. Memorial and Museum" introduces to the Museum’s activities, describes collections and exhibitions, as well as history of establishing the Museum and various commemorations to the Majdanek victims. Some practical information and a plan of the Museum facilitate the visit at Majdanek.

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“Forgotten stories, forgotten people – young people from Poland, Germany and Israel discover fates of the Nazi victims” – it is a title of a project carried out by the Zamość Volunteer Centre, Maria Konopnicka Secondary School in Zamość, Dürer-Gymnasium in Nurenberg, and Youth Village Kfar Silver in Hof Ashkelon.

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Lecture course concerning the history of KL Lublin (Concentration Camp in Lublin) has been taking place in Secondary School No. 1 in Lublin. The lectures organised for the second grade students of historical speciality are the great opportunity to become acquainted with the functioning of the German concentration camp in Lublin as well as life of the whole community of prisoners and individual persons confined at Majdanek. Historical sources used during the lectures are the basis for discussion and exchange of experiences.

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A visit to the authentic historical places connected to the Holocaust, like Majdanek, offers a remarkable possibility of an active exploration of history. Historical workshops, organised on 19–23 January for the students of Gymnasium in Datteln, in Nordrhein-Westfalen enabled them to learn about selected aspects of KL Lublin's history on the basis of historical sources, e.g. studies, commentaries, and archival documents.

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A report on the activities of the State Museum at Majdanek in 2014 has already been published. On 50 pages, there is information about 70th anniversary of the Museum, the most important investments, exhibitions.

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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.

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To commemorate the Polish political prisoners deported from Pawiak prison to KL Lublin, the Museum organised a meeting on 16th January. It was devoted to Danuta Brzosko-Mędryk, the former prisoner of Pawiak prison and KL Lublin, brought to Majdanek in the first transport of political prisoners from Warsaw on 18th January 1943.

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Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku organizuje kurs na przewodnika muzealnego dla studentek i studentów. Osoby, które pomyślnie przejdą proces rekrutacji i wszystkie etapy szkolenia mogą liczyć na współpracę z Muzeum.