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

Today, a public presentation of the winners of the competition on the architectural-landscape concept of the memorial on the area of the former German Nazi death camp in Sobibór – a branch of the State Museum at Majdanek – took place in the newly opened Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.

Today, a public presentation of the winners of the competition on the architectural-landscape concept of the memorial on the area of the former German Nazi death camp in Sobibór – a branch of the State Museum at Majdanek – took place in the newly opened Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.

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Thanks to efforts made by the Scientific Centre of the Polish Academy of Science in Vienna, papers from the conference on museums of martyrdom in Poland and Austria, co-organized by the State Museum at Majdanek, were issued in print.

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On July 12, the Swedish Ambassador Staffan Herrström visited the State Museum at Majdanek. It was his first official visit to Lublin.

We kindly informthat theLibrary is closed from July 15 to August 1.

The State Museum at Majdanek and the Society for the Protection of Majdanek invite to the commemoration of the 69th anniversary of the camp liquidation and the 70th anniversary of the displacement of the Zamość Region inhabitants to Majdanek. It starts on July 22 at 1 p.m. The agenda includes opening of an exhibition in barracks no. 62 (a new exhibiting building).

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On July 1-5, volunteers of the German Association Action Reconciliation Service for Peace met at Majdanek as part of a seminar devoted to German occupation of the Lublin Region and ways of commemorating victims of the Nazi dictatorship, especially to the history of the German concentration camp KL Lublin.

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Archival collections of the State Museum at Majdanek have been supplemented with documents and photographs of Genowefa and Leon Kosteccy. They have been donated to the Museum by Maria Droba and Krzysztof Willmann. The collections include, among many other things, original postcards documenting the imprisonment of the couple at Majdanek.

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With reference to the events from 71 years, students from the State Police School in Hamburg visited the Lublin region. In 1942, in Józefów, its monstrous activity started the Hamburg Reserve Police Battalion 101 sent to the Lublin District as part of the so called Sonderaktion Polen. From July 1942 to November 1943, German policemen from this unit shot and deported to the death camps tens of thousands of Jewish children, women and men.

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How to talk about difficult past? How to create good relations between Polish and German youth? These and other questions were raised during an international project devoted to the German occupation of the Lublin region and fates of Majdanek prisoners. It was participated by pupils from the Georg Büchner Gimnasium in Darmstadt and the Lower Secondary School No. 24 in Lublin.

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On 27th June the State Museum at Majdanek was visited by the Head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church -Archbishop Światosław Szewczuk.

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On 26th June the State Museum at Majdanek was visited by the President of Armenian Republic Serzh Sargsyan.

We kindly inform that since July 1, 2013, the gate leading to the Monument to Struggle and Martyrdom will be closed. The only accessible entrance to the Museum from Droga Męczenników Majdanka Street will be viathe main gate.

The State Museum at Majdanek would like to inform that during August and September 2010 there will be renovation works of roads and pavementson the grounds of the Museum. Therafore,some roads, pavements and car parks will be temporarily inaccessible for visitors. >>>

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This October, the 70th anniversary of a revoltprepared by Jewish prisoners of the German death camp in Sobibór will be marked. As a result of the uprising, a numerous group of prisoners escaped, from whom about 50 people survived the war. Shortly after the revolt the camp was liquidated and traces of the crimes were erased by the SS staff. Conducted on the grounds of the former camp since 2001, archaeological research helps to unravel some mysteries of Sobibór. In each stage of the excavation works, new discoveries are made that, compared with accounts by the survivors, supplement the knowledge about Sobibór to date.

Due to some moderniztaion works, the Archives of the State Museum at Majdanek are closed from June 10 to 24, 2013.

We are sorry for any inconvenience it may cause.

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“Young people shape the future” is a name of the project for young people from Germany and Poland. It took place at the State Museum at Majdanek on May 21-25. Young craftsmen helped Museum employees to conserve the post-camp relics, including stretchers-camp beds. Co-organizers of the project were Katholische Jugendsozialarbeit from North Rhine-Westphalia and Provincial Headquarters of Voluntary Labour Corps in Lublin.

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Brochures on history of the former Germandeath camp in Sobibór and its commemoration have enriched the offer of books being sold by the State Museum at Majdanek. They are available in Polish and English.

English version of the museum guide and handbook for teachers who plan to visit Majdanek have been published under the imprint of the State Museum at Majdanek. On sale is also a Polish-English publication on the origin and course of "Aktion Reinhardt."

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On May 23 and 24, 2013, classes for PhD students from the Faculty of History of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS) in Lublin were held at the State Museum at Majdanek.

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A translator in the mists of history, or translation of texts on the Holocaust and commemorations

On May 27, 2013, atthe State Museum at Majdanek a meeting was heldwith William Brand – a translator, lecturer, literary agent, who translated into English books by Ryszard Kapuściński and many publications on the Holocaust.

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On April 24, the Museum at Majdanek played host to Krystyna Budnicka, a member to the Association “Children of the Holocaust.” She told about her fates and fates of her family, and appealed to pupils to assume responsibility for future which should be based on respect for others. The meeting was preceded with a presentation and lecture devoted to the Warsaw ghetto.

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An international group of pupils from six countries – France, Greece, Spain, Romania, Turkey, and Poland – visited the State Museum at Majdanek on April 10. Their visit to the Lublin region was organized by Lower Secondary School No. 1 in Kurów as part of the Comenius project. The education-cultural project acquainted pupils with the history and culture of our region.