27.10.2022
On October 26, a ceremony was held at the Belzec site to commemorate the Roma and Sinti victims of the 1940 Belzec labor camp.
The event was organized by the Belzec Museum and Memorial Site. It was attended by young people from high schools in Oleszyce and Chełmec near Nowy Sącz. During it, participants paid tribute to the murdered, at a monument built near the graves of Roma victims of the labor camp.
10.10.2022
As part of the cooperation between the Museum and Memorial Site in Belzec and the Prison in Zamosc, on October 7 a presentation of a temporary exhibition entitled "The German Death Camp in Belzec. History and relics" took place.
03.10.2022
As part of the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of "Aktion Reinhardt", on 03.10 the Museum and Memorial Site in Belzec opened to the public an exhibition entitled. "Poles rescuing Jews during World War II". The opening meeting was attended by representatives of local authorities, principals of schools from the Tomaszów district, as well as teachers and students.
23.09.2022
On the 80th anniversary of operation "Reinhardt" - the mass extermination of Polish Jews conducted by Nazi Germany on the territories of occupied Poland. The State Museum at Majdanek, the emeinsam Erinnern für eine Europäische Zukunft association from Münster, and the Alter Schlachthof memorial in Düsseldorf organised a historical-educational seminar.
30.08.2022
On the last weekend of August, Rabka Zdroj hosted a "Walk of Remembrance" organized by initiative group "Historia Rabki", during which the memory of Rabka Jews who were deported to the German Nazi extermination camp in Belzec on the last Sunday of August 1942 was commemorated.
21.06.2022
From 5 July 2022, the visitors to the Museum and Memorial in Bełżec will be able to see the exhibition "Between Life and Death. Stories of Rescue During the Holocaust". The exhibition presents stories from twelve European countries of those who helped Jews persecuted during the Second World War and accounts from the survivors.
15.06.2022
The youth from the 10th High School in Toruń joined in the commemoration of the National Day of Remembrance for the Victims of German Nazi Concentration and Death Camps.
06.06.2022
On 6th June, a seminar entitled 'History - Education - Remembrance' was held - this was the fifth educational event dedicated to historians, teachers and regionalists. The meeting was held on the 18th anniversary of the opening of the Museum and Memorial Site in Bełżec, while also marking the 80th anniversary of "'Operation Reinhardt".
03.06.2022
We are pleased to announce another debate in the series entitled: Operation "Reinhardt" - what happened in the Lublin region 80 years ago?
03.06.2022
On June 6 we opened our new outdoor exhibition in Przemyśl. It is devoted to operation "Reinhardt". On the 80th anniversary of this mass murder programme we want to describe the historical framework of those tragic events by presenting the exhibition in several cities of Poland. Each and every of them was marked with deportations and human suffering of those persecuted by Nazi Germany during World War II.
25.05.2022
The international academic conference “The Infrastructure of Aktion ‘Reinhardt’. Places, Sources, Research Postulates” organised by the State Museum at Majdanek concluded yesterday. Among the participants there were historians and researchers from numerous institutions and scholarly centres concerned with the history of the Holocaust and World War II.
23.05.2022
The participants' task was to create an artwork using any technique, referring to a selected fragment of an account of deportations to the Bełżec extermination camp. The accounts were available on the website of the Museum and Memorial Site in Bełżec. Around 100 young artists from several provinces took part in the competition.
18.05.2022
The deadline for submitting works for the competition "Deportations to the Bełżec extermination camp" had passed on 13 May.
18.05.2022
The European commemoration of the International Museum Day includes the #ProtectTheFacts campaign organised by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, the United Nations, UNESCO, and the European Commission.
17.05.2022
This year, the Museum and Memorial Site in Bełżec began observing the International Museum Day on May 14th-15th. On Saturday and Sunday, free guided tours through the grounds of the former death camp in Bełżec and the museum exhibition were organized.
16.05.2022
Last weekend was marked with another edition of the "Night of Museums." This year, the events organised as a part of the nationwide campaign which aims at promoting cultural institutions were held both at the State Museum at Majdanek and at its branches in Bełżec and Sobibór. Over the weekend, nearly 1,500 people participated in our events.
11.05.2022
This week, a seminar organised at the Museum and Memorial in Sobibór came to an end. The meeting of representatives of many museums and cultural institutions from all across Poland was an excellent opportunity to share experiences on extracurricular historical education and activities promoting various aspects of history. The event was held as part of the 80th anniversary of operation “Reinhardt” organised by the State Museum at Majdanek.
28.04.2022
As a part of a social and educational campaign “Daffodils 2022” was organized a meeting with Tomasz Hanejko, the head of Museum and Memorial Site in Belzec. The participants of the event took part in the opening of an exhibition and a lecture about history of the German death camp in Belzec, where Jews from Lubaczów were murdered too.
28.04.2022
On April 26, 2022 took place a socio-educational campaign “Daffodils 2022” for the 79th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The project was completed by cooperation Pedagogical Library in Tomaszów Lubelski, High School No. 1 in Tomaszów Lubelski and Museum and Memorial Site in Belzec.
22.04.2022
What are the current challenges faced by educators working at memorial sites? What goals should the museum employees pursue while working with the visitors? These are merely two out of many questions asked during this week’s training session from the “Museum in Action” series organised in the education and research facility of the Museum and Memorial in Bełżec.
22.04.2022
On April 19, we celebrated Holocaust Remembrance Day and Day for the Prevention of Crimes Against Humanity, which was established to commemorate the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
12.04.2022
On April 11, 2022, the third meeting of the present Board of the State Museum at Majdanek took place. The session was held at the Museum and Memorial in Sobibór.
18.03.2022
On the 80th anniversary of the arrival of the very first transport of Jews from the Podzamcze ghetto in Lublin to the death camp in Bełżec, which initiated the mass extermination programme implemented by the Third Reich under the codename “Einsatz Reinhardt,” we met in the Collegium Iuridicum of the Catholic University of Lublin to restore the memory of those events in the form of a panel discussion.
16.03.2022
The first transports of Jewish deportees from the Lublin and Lwów ghettos arrived at the Bełżec extermination camp in Bełżec 80 years ago. These events marked the beginning of operation “Reinhardt.” Within its course the Germans murdered approx. 2,000,000 Jews between the March 1942 and November 1943. We commemorated all the victims of that mass extermination programme during a ceremony held in the Museum and Memorial in Bełżec on March 15.
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