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The educational seminar entitled "The history and remembrance"took place between July 14and 18 at theState Museum at Majdanek. The members of the Association tookpart in it. The main objectives of the seminar were to make volunteers from Germany familiar with the history ofthe German occupation in the Lublin District and to discuss the senseof commemoration and remembering the victims of the Nazi occupation for people nowadays.

The State Museum at Majdanek invites to the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the camp liquidation It starts on July 22 at 1 p.m. The agenda includes opening of a new exhibition “The Prisoners of Majdanek.” This year’s ceremony takes place at the square in front of the Mausoleum.

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Between June 16 and 18, 2014, students from the Junior High School No. 24 in Lublin and the Georg Büchner Junior High School in Darmstadt participated in the intercultural workshops on the history of the German occupation in the Lublin region and particularly on the fates of prisoners of the concentration camp KL Lublin. The programme in the Museum at Majdanek was preceded by classes which aimed at acquainting students with each other and integrating the participants of the project.

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24 czerwca w Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego wiceminister Piotr Żuchowski zaprezentował królowi Niderlandów Willemowi Alexandrowi oraz jego żonie, królowej Mazimie, projekt nowego muzeum na terenie byłego niemieckiego obozu zagłady w Sobiborze. W spotkaniu uczestniczył dyrektor Państwowego Muzeum na Majdanku Tomasz Kranz.

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The ceremony organized by the American Jewish Committee on June, 25, 2014, reminded of the 10th anniversary of the Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec. Tomasz Kranz, the head of the State Museum at Majdanek, underlined that the former German death camp in Bełżec is a special place - the third biggest cemetery of the Second World War and also a memorial considered to be the one of the most touching architectonic-sculptural compositions which were created on grounds of the former death camps. The monument – thanks to “its unusual power of expression – contributes to our confrontation not only with the events that happened in Bełżec 72 years ago, but also with the whole heritage of the Holocaust.”

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On 70th anniversary of its establishing, the State Museum at Majdanek moves to the centre of Lublin. A photography exhibition devoted to the Museum’s activity has already been presented at Łokietek Square.

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We have a great pleasure to inform that the State Museum at Majdanek received the Paweł Konrad’s Laurel award. The publication Krwawa środa. 3 listopada 1943 w pamięci świadków [Bloody Wednesday. November 3, 1943 According to the Memories of Witnesses] edited by Beata Siwek-Ciupak and Kamila Czuryszkiewicz was awarded “The Book of the Year 2013” in the category Lublin - monograph.

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In the 10th anniversary of the foundation of the Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec the album, which summarizes several years’ research works conducted by the Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec, was published. Ewa Koper’s publication entitled “Every Victim Has Its Name” commemorates 750 people who were murdered in the Bełżec extermination camp. Their fate was illustrated by 260 photographs published in the book.

It is with great sadness that we received the news that Robert Kuwałek, employee of the Research Department of the State Museum at Majdanek, outstanding specialist in history of the Holocaust and fates of Jewish population in the Lublin region, passed away suddenly on June 6, 2014.

He left his wife and daughter.

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Osiem referatów, panel dyskusyjny i oddanie hołdu ofiarom obozu zagłady w Bełżcu. 10. rocznicę powstania Muzeum – Miejsca Pamięci w Bełżcu upamiętni konferencja naukowa pt. „Sztuka pamięci. Rzeźba pomnikowa w miejscach Zagłady w Polsce”. Odbędzie się ona 3 czerwca 2014 roku w siedzibie MMPB, gdzie znajduje się jeden z najbardziej poruszających pomników Zagłady w Europie.

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On May 27, the group of Belarusian students of the Junior Secondary School No. 1 in Baranovichi, Belarus who take part in exchange with students from Secondary School No. 4 in Lublin visited the State Museum at Majdanek.

On June 3, the historical exhibition, information point and the office of the Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec will be closed. The grounds of the commemoration can be visited between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.

We are sorry for any inconvenience it may cause.

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The Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec was founded on June 3, 2004, as a branch of the Sate Museum at Majdanek in Lublin. The then president of the Republic of Poland, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, took part in the celebration of that event. For nearly 10 years, until the end of the year 2013, the Museum has been visited by over 300 thousand people, with foreign visitors consisting 20%.

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Osiem referatów, panel dyskusyjny i oddanie hołdu ofiarom obozu zagłady w Bełżcu. 10. rocznicę powstania Muzeum – Miejsca Pamięci w Bełżcu upamiętni konferencja naukowa pt. „Sztuka pamięci. Rzeźba pomnikowa w miejscach Zagłady w Polsce”. Odbędzie się ona 3 czerwca 2014 roku w siedzibie MMPB, gdzie znajduje się jeden z najbardziej poruszających pomników Zagłady w Europie.

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The pupils from the junior high school at the Special Purpose School and Education Center for deaf or hard of hearing children and young people in Lublin made their annual visit to the State Museum at Majdanek. They took part in a lesson devoted to the fate of displaced people from the Zamość Region, who were deported to the concentration camp at Majdanek in the summer of 1943.

On 26th May in the Władysław Sikorski School Complex No. 2 in Tomaszów Lubelski, the lessons carried out by the Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec were held.

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Osiem referatów, panel dyskusyjny i oddanie hołdu ofiarom obozu zagłady w Bełżcu. 10. rocznicę powstania Muzeum – Miejsca Pamięci w Bełżcu upamiętni konferencja naukowa pt. „Sztuka pamięci. Rzeźba pomnikowa w miejscach Zagłady w Polsce”. Odbędzie się ona 3 czerwca 2014 roku w siedzibie MMPB, gdzie znajduje się jeden z najbardziej poruszających pomników Zagłady w Europie.

On June 3, the historical exhibition, information point and the office of the Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec will be closed. The grounds of the commemoration can be visited between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.

We are sorry for any inconvenience it may cause.

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The Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec was founded on June 3, 2004, as a branch of the Sate Museum at Majdanek in Lublin. The then president of the Republic of Poland, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, took part in the celebration of that event. For nearly 10 years, until the end of the year 2013, the Museum has been visited by over 300 thousand people, with foreign visitors consisting 20%.

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On May 14, the students of the Junior Secondary School No. 7 in Lublin took part in the museum lesson entitled “The world behind wires”. The classes made it possible not only to familiarise the students with the history of KL Lublin, but also to examine attitudes of people in “the world behind wires” – the inmates of the concentration camp at Majdanek.

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This year we honour the 72. anniversary of the beginning of mass executions of Jewish people in the Lublin District, carried out by the Hamburg Reserve Battalion 101. Its German members had participated in shooting of 38,000 Jews, and in deporting another 45,000 Jews to death camps. Following the tragic history, a group of students of Police Academy in Hamburg visited Lublin in order to come to terms with the past of their military formation. They took part in one of the historic civic educational projects, supported by the State Museum at Majdanek since 2001.

On June 3, 2014, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec,, the Museum offers free guided tours. They will be held on May 24-25.

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The State Museum at Majdanek is in possession of a very precious document. It’s a diary written by the former prisoner Jadwiga Ankiewicz who describes her 4-month stay in the camp when she was 17 years old.The museum lesson entitled “But a part of my heart stayed there, at Majdanek – the camp reality in Jadwiga Ankiewicz’s diary” is conducted on the basis of this historical source. On April 6, 2014, students of the Academic Sports High School took part in such classes.

On May 17, as part of International Museum Day observances, the State Museum at Majdanek invites to take part in free guided tours through the grounds of the former concentration camp at Majdanek and museum exhibition.