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70 years after the arrival of a transport of deported Jewish citizens of Thuringia and Saxony to the Bełżyce ghetto, a study trip to memorial sites in the Lublin region was organized for teachers, historians and multiplicators of educational activities for youngsters. The organizers were the National Centre for Civic Education in Erfurt and the State Museum at Majdanek. The trip took place on May 13-19, 2012, and was devoted to visiting Lublin, former Nazi camp at Majdanek and in Bełżec, as well as transitory ghettos in Izbica and Bełżyce.

Due to renovation works on the grounds of the State Museum at Majdanek, the steps leading to the Gate-Monument from the Visitor Service Centre will be closed to visitors.



We apologize for any inconvenience it may cause. In the area of the renovation works great caution should be exercised.

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On May 18 there was an opportunity to learn that the State Museum at Majdanek is the world’s oldest institution relating to the Second World War and that a forest was planted on its grounds in the 40’s. On that day the International Museum Day is celebrated. Our Museum prepared a multimedia presentation introducing nearly 70 years of the institution activities.

70 years ago the Hamburg Reserve Police Battalion 101 started its monstrous activity in Józefów, in the Zamość region, where it was sent as part of the so called "Sonderaktion Polen". From July 1942 to November 1943, German policemen from this unit took part in shooting of 38,000 Jews and sent 45,000 Jews to the death camp in Treblinka.

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Young Germans from the Free State of Thuringia in Germany and pupils from the Boarding House No. 2 in Zamość participated in the historical workshops organized by the State Museum at Majdanek on April 22-24, 2012.

The Museum of the Former Death Camp in Sobibór has been opened since May 2, 2012, as a branch of the State Museum at Majdanek. Until the end of October, the memorial site in Sobibór will be available for visitors everyday, except Mondays and bank holidays, from 9.00 to 17.00. Admission is free of charge.

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On April 19 anniversary of the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto was commemorated. This event and gradual liquidation of the ghetto resulted in the influx of thousands of Jews from Warsaw into Majdanek. These were whole families, who were regularly selected and sent to gas chambers.

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On April 19 the exhibition “Elżbieta Nadel – Home Pictures – Lvov 1942” was opened in the Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec. The exposition is a series of drawings being a record of one day in the life of a Jewish family in occupied Lvov.

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On March 28, 2012, pupils from Gymnasium Heepen in Bielefeld and “Filomata” Secondary School in Gliwice set off to Lublin. Their destination was the State Museum at Majdanek.

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“World behind the wires” is a museum lesson which on April 3, 2012, was participated by pupils from Secondary School No. 9 in Lublin. They watched a documentary on the history of Majdanek camp, were shown around the former concentration camp and got familiar with accounts by former prisoners of KL Lublin.

It is estimated that about 150,000 people went through the Majdanek camp. Based on the preserved archival records it is possible to obtain information on some of the inmates. Such a purpose is fulfilled by the “Archiwista” system implemented by the State Museum at Majdanek. Its base contains data of 56,000 prisoners of KL Lublin.

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On April 2, 2012, a lesson for twelfth graders from the Specialised Secondary School for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students No. 16 in Lublin took place in the Archives of the State Museum 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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On March 29, 1942, the first transport with deported Slovak Jews arrived to Majdanek. It consisted solely of men being capable of work. Prior to their arrival, other prisoners were specially removed from the camp. By April 6, 1942, this transport was followed by three others. In these transports Germans deported 4,495 men from Slovakia in total. They initiated the great deportation wave from Slovakia to the Lublin district.

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Educational projects carried out at the State Museum at Majdanek give pupils an opportunity to be in an authentic historical landscape and to learn about the past, as they discover it on their own.

On March 17, 1942, the first transports of Jews deported from the Lublin ghetto and Lvov arrived to the death camp in Bełżec. These deportations were the beginning of “Operation Reinhardt” – a mass extermination of Jews in the General Government. The commemoration of the 70th anniversary of these events took place on March 19, 2012, at the Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec.