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.

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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.

View photos A group of German teenagers from Neunkirchen, Saarland, Germany, took part in an educational project devoted to the history of the former German concentration camp at Majdanek on April 22-25, 2014. The classes were combined with cleaning some historical relics.

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Nearly 40 students of the Economics and Catering School Complex in Tarnów took part in classes entitled “We Were All Just Numbers… Camp Relics and Prisoner Community of the Former Concentration Camp at Majdanek.”

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Employees of the Education Department of the State Museum at Majdanek prepared some educational classes for students of Lublin schools as part of the Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. It falls on 19 April, at the anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

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On April 3-4, 2014, a Polish-German educational project devoted to the history of KL Lublin took place at the State Museum at Majdanek. It was participated by students of the Secondary School No. 5 in Lublin and German students from Gesamtschule in Schermbeck. On the first day they visited the museum exhibition and the grounds of the former concentration camp. A meeting with former Majdanek prisoner Stanisława Kruszewska was an overwhelming experience for the young people.

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On April 15, 2014, workshops for students of the Institute of Polish Philology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, were organized at the Museum as part of the students’ course in oral history.

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The way of the cross service took place at the premises of the former concentration camp at Majdanek on 26th March 2010. Parts of the recollections of the former Majdanek prisoners were the source of reflections and ruminations.

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On April 3, 2014, an educational project devoted to Holocaust of the Zamość Jews was carried out as part of cooperation between the Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec and the Jan Zamoyski Secondary School No. 1 in Zamość.

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From March 28 to April 2, 2014, students from the Friedrich von Bodelschwingh Bethel School in Bielefeld and Secondary School No. 5 in Lublin participated in intercultural historical workshops, which developed their knowledge on the history of the German occupation of the Lublin region and the concentration camp at Majdanek.

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The way of the cross service took place at the premises of the former concentration camp at Majdanek on 26th March 2010. Parts of the recollections of the former Majdanek prisoners were the source of reflections and ruminations.

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Today director of the State Museum at Majdanek, Tomasz Kranz, and acting head of the Division of Applied Linguistics, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Jarosław Krajka, signed an agreement on cooperation regarding student training programmes.

Note: Due to conservation and renovation works, exhibition barracks nos. 44 and 53 are closed until further notice.