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On September 16, the next stage of renovating roads and pavements starts at the State Museum at Majdanek. The works will be carried out in the section of the road and pavements leading from the intersection near barracks no. 38 (in the shape of L letter) to the Mausoleum. The renovation works are to be over in the middle of November.

The architectural-landscape concept which will be completed in the area of the former death camp in Sobibór, has already been chosen. Its authors are: Marcin Urbanek, Piotr Michalewicz, and Łukasz Mieszkowski. The concept was awarded with the 1st prize in the international architectural contest organized by the State Museum at Majdanek in cooperation with the Foundation „Polish-German Reconciliation.”

Starting from October 28, barracks nos. 43 and 44, housing the permanent historical exhibition, will be closed to visitors due to renovation works.

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On October 14, 1943, a revolt broke out in the German death camp in Sobibór resulting in escape of 300 inmates. About 60 of them survived the war. Three among of the group took part in the ceremony organized by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage at the Museum of the Former Death Camp in Sobibór on the 70th anniversary of these events. Philip Bialowitz, Thomas Blatt, and Jules Schelvis – participants in the uprising – were decorated by the President of the Republic of Poland with the Officer's Crosses of the Order of Merit.

Starting from October 1, 2013, the Visitor Service Centre will be closed due to modernization and renovation works.

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Starting from this weekend, a new open-air exhibition will be presented at the Museum of the Former Death Camp in Sobibór. It is devoted to the history of the German death camp which was constructed in the Sobibór woods in 1942. The opening of the exhibition is part of the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the camp prisoners’ revolt. The ceremony, organized by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage,is held in Sobibór on October 14, 2013.

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Hosted by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, a group of young politicians from Brandenburg took part in a study visit to Poland on September 30 to October 3, 2013. Their Polish partners were politicians, scientists, journalists, and other representatives of social life. As part of their trip, the guests from Germany visited the State Museum at Majdanek as well. They were guided through the permanent historical exhibition, open-air exhibition, and temporary exhibition devoted to the displaced from the Zamość region.

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On October 2, 2013, the Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec organized study stays for two groups of pupils from the Jan Zamoyski Secondary School in Zamość. They were guided through the historical exhibition and got familiar with the symbolism of the monument. Classes covered lectures combined with multimedia presentations entitled: Extermination of Jews in the General Government. Camps of “Operation Reinhard,” and On the Jewish tradition of Everyday Life – Polish Jews Culture.

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Museums – memorial sites created on the grounds of the former Nazi concentration and death camps are polymorphic institutions. They are perceived as cemeteries, relics of the past, monuments, and carriers of individual and collective memory, but are also becoming museums of the contemporary history, where the memory is subject to inevitable musealization.

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Education is playing more and more vital role in the museum practice in Poland. However, just few museums have their own didactic concepts and work on this issue. It is reflected by a small amount of academic publications devoted to museum didactics and pedagogy. The newest book issued by the Museum “Museum Education in Poland. Aspects, Contexts, Perspectives,” ed. Wiesław Wysok and Andrzej Stępnik, is an attempt to fill this gap and evaluate the state of the contemporary museum education, especially in the context of the museums – memorials.

Starting from October 1, 2013, the Visitor Service Centre will be closed due to modernization and renovation works.

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The State Museum at Majdanek, Faculty of Building and Architecture and Eastern Innovative Centre for Architecture of the Lublin University of Technology invite to the exhibition of projects submitted to the competition on the architectural-landscape concept of the memorial on the area of the former German Nazi death camp in Sobibór. The works can be seen in the Eastern Innovative Centre for Architecture of the Lublin University of Technology at Nadbystrzycka Street 40 (ground floor) from October 7 to 21, 2013.

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On September 19, 2013, about 130 teachers from the Lublin branch of the Polish Teachers’ Union gathered at Majdanek to pay tribute to the teachers from the Lublin region who died or were killed during the Second World War.

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Among people getting involved in the activities of the State Museum at Majdanek, there are also youths who after passing their secondary school-leaving exams decide to participate in the 12 months long volunteering programme at the Museum. Two organizations: Action Reconciliation Service for Peace (Aktion Sühnezeichen – Friedensdienste) from Germany and Niemals Vergessen from Austria make it possible.

The Society for the Protection of Majdanek, Catechetical Department of the Metropolitan Curia and the Children of the Zamość Region Association invite to the religious ceremony that will take place on the grounds of the State Museum at Majdanek on September 18, 2011 (Sunday).

On September 16, the next stage of renovating roads and pavements starts at the State Museum at Majdanek. The works will be carried out in the section of the road and pavements leading from the intersection near barracks no. 38 (in the shape of L letter) to the Mausoleum. The renovation works are to be over in the middle of November.

W dniu 18 sierpnia br. Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku zaprosiło wszystkie osoby zainteresowane II wojną światową na bezpłatne zwiedzanie z przewodnikiem terenu byłego obozu koncentracyjnego na Majdanku i ekspozycji muzealnej. Kolejne, letnie spotkanie z historią poświęcone było zagładzie Żydów w związku z 70. rocznicą „Akcji Reinhardt”.

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“Guide to the Archival Collections of the State Museum at Majdanek” by Anna Wójcik is downloadable from the Museum website. It is one of the newest books issued under the Museum imprint.

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On July 25, the Museum played host to the head of memorial site Villa ten Hompel in Münster – Christoph Spieker. Following his meeting with the director of the State Museum at Majdanek Tomasz Kranz, during which future cooperation between booth institutions was discussed, Christoph Spieker were guided through the exhibition of the Museum at Majdanek and grounds of the former camp.

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We did not forget you, prisoners of Majdanek. We did not become accustomed to the crimes you were victims of. They still terrify us and are a horrifying reminder – with these words the Voivod of the Lublin region Genowefa Tokarska commemorated the former prisoners of KL Lublin during the celebrations held to mark the 67th anniversary of the Majdanek camp liquidation. They took place at the foot of the Gate Monument on July 22.

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Original objects found on the grounds of the camp or donated by the former prisoners, audio and video accounts by the Majdanek inmates, archival photographs. In the 70th anniversary of the dislocations from the Zamość Region to KL Lublin, the State Museum at Majdanek remained about the fates of the displaced.

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On July 19, the Ambassador of Russia Alexander Alekseev paid a visit to the State Museum at Majdanek.