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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.

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About 100 students of the Technical High School of Building and Surveying in Lublin took part in educational classes including a lecture on the history of the concentration camp at Majdanek. The issue of dislocations from the Zamość Region was especially stressed. Stanisława Kruszewska – a former prisoner of Majdanek, told about them based on her own experience.

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A group of students from seven countries – Belgium, Germany, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, and Poland – visited the State Museum at Majdanek on March 12, 2014. Their stay in Poland, coordinated by the Stefan Czarniecki Secondary School in Nisko, was related with an educational programme concerning the young people rights and their opportunities in modern Europe.

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On March 18, the 72nd anniversary of the beginning of “Aktion Reinhardt” and the first deportations of Jews to the German death camp in Bełżec was commemoratedat the Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec.

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Today director of the State Museum at Majdanek, Dr. Tomasz Kranz, and dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, Rev. Prof. Marcin Tkaczyk, signed an agreement on cooperation between both institutions. It aims at close cooperation regarding student training and volunteering programmes.

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The book launch of “Café Auschwitz” was accompanied with a discussion on Polish-German reconciliation, accounts by former prisoners of German concentration camps and coming to terms with the perpetrators. In the meeting, organized in the University Library of the Catholic University of Lublin, participated Dirk Brauns, the book author, Zofia Posmysz, a writer and former prisoner of KL Auschwitz, and Tomasz Kranz, director of the State Museum at Majdanek.

A lecture by Krzysztof Banach - the head of the Exhibition Department of the State Museum at Majdanek – opened a series of meetings organized by the students of the Faculty of Humanities of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University entitled “Accounts by witnesses in the Polish martyrological museums.” The lecture concerning the character of exhibitions presented at the State Museum at Majdanek in the last 70 years took place on February 20, 2014.

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Historical practice is one of active forms of extracurricular historical education offered by the State Museum at Majdanek. Such classes are based on discovering history by means of intellectual and emotional learning at an authentic historical site. Such a traineeship was participated by students from the Gesamtschule in Waltrop, North Rhine-Westphalia, on February 10-20, 2014.

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On February 7, 2014, workshops for pupils from Zamość secondary schools took place in the “Synagogue” Centre of the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Zamość. They marked the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

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What happened during the German occupation of the Lublin Region in 1939-1944? What role played the Majdanek concentration camp in the German policy of persecuting the Poles and Jews? How did the Majdanek prisoners put up resistance against the Nazi terror? What were the perpetrators’ motives? These are some of questions which pupils from the Josef Albers Gymnasium in Bottrop, Germany, tried to answer during historical workshops organized at the State Museum at Majdanek on February 11-13, 2014.

“Educational Visits to the State Museum at Majdanek. A Guide for Teachers” edited by Tomasz Kranz is downloadable from the Museum website. It is one of many books issued under the Museum imprint which are devoted to educational issues. At the same time, it is the first book addressed directly to teachers.

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On February 5, 2014, pupils from the Lower Secondary School No. 19 in Lublin met with a witness to history – Stanisława Kruszewska. The former female prisoner of the concentration camp at Majdanek shared her experiences related with dislocation of her village – Dereźnia Solska in the Zamość Region, and memoirs concerning her stay in the camp.

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During a press conference organized by the State Museum at Majdanek, the local journalists had an opportunity to learn about the paths of the Museum development and planned exhibitions, as well as academic and popularizing activities. The aim of the conference was to remind about the round anniversary of the Museum establishment and to highlight its role in the modern museum discourse.

In the beginning of November 1944, in less than four months after the liquidation of the concentration camp at Majdanek, the first martyrdom museum in the world documenting events connected with the Second World War was established on its grounds. In 2014, the State Museum at Majdanek marks the 70th anniversary of its functioning. It will be an opportunity to remind of the Museum activities to date and reflect on the development of similar institutions in Europe. We present the most important events connected with the Museum jubilee and the 70th anniversary of the Majdanek camp liquidation.

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As part of its social and political education programme, Österreichische Gewerkschaftsjugend, a Vienna organization for young trade union members, has been organizing study trips to memorial sites in Poland. The aim of the seminars is to visit historical sites relating to the Second World War and to commemorate victims of the Nazi Socialism. Among the museums visited each year by the Austrians, there is the State Museum at Majdanek.