Today is National Day of Remembrance for Poles who saved Jews under German occupation. It is the anniversary of the death of the Ulma family from Markowa in the Podkarpacie region, executed by German gendarmes for hiding Jews.

On March 17, 1942, Nazi Germany, with deportations from Lublin and Lviv to the Belzec death camp, beganl extermination of Jews living in the General Government. These deportations marked the beginning of "Aktion Reinhardt."

On 16 March 1942, at 5.30 p.m. Hermann Höfle - an Austrian Nazi, at the head of the so-called "resettlement staff", and the chief logistician of the extermination of Jews in the General Government - convened a meeting of SS officers, security police functionaries, and the German civil administration representatives in Lublin. The subject of the meeting briefing was Odilo Globocnik's planned operation to liquidate the ghetto in Lublin‘s Podzamcze.

On 6 March 2023, the Museum Council at the State Museum at Majdanek met. The Council members unanimously approved the report on the Museum's activities in 2022 and adopted the work plan for the current year.

The European Day of the Righteous was established on 6 March to commemorate all those who stood up against totalitarianisms and crimes against humanity, who fought for life and dignity of other people.

On the International Holocaust Remembrance Day we commemorate the 6,000,000 Jews murdered by the Nazi Germany during World War II. The number includes the victims of operation "Reinhardt" - the mass extermination of Jews in the General Government.

Is the concept of architecture relevant with regards to the German Nazi extermination camps – places where the SS-men destroyed nearly the entire infrastructure used in the mass extermination of Jews persecuted by the Third Reich? Were there any differences between the spatial organisation of concentration and extermination camps? Should historical objects in sites like Bełżec, Sobibór, Treblinka, or Majdanek be subjected to reconstruction?

In commemoration of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we invite teachers and students of Zamosc schools to participate in a free online lesson entitled: Zamość used to be their home as well. The fate of Zamość Jews under German occupation.

Historical debates, conferences, educational seminars, film projects, and exhibitions –events commemorating the 80th anniversary of the operation “Reinhardt” were at the centre of activities held by the State Museum at Majdanek in 2022.

Just before the very end of 2022, we hand to our readers two publications: “Majdanek. Obóz koncentracyjny w relacjach więźniów i świadków” [Majdanek. Concentration Camp in the Survivors' and Witnesses' Testimonies] and “Architektura nazistowskich obozów zagłady w Bełżcu, Sobiborze i Treblince” [The Architecture of the Nazi Death Camps in Bełżec, Sobibór, and Treblinka].

The Museum and Memorial Site in Belzec carried out a series of five meetings with inmates in penitentiaries and detention centers in the Lublin Province this fall.

The staff of the Museum and Memorial at Belzec wish you a healthy and peaceful Christmas, Hanukkah and a happy New Year 2023.

A delegation from the German Embassy in Warsaw visited the Museum and Memorial Site in Belzec on November 17.

The registration for the international academic conference entitled Operation “Reinhardt” and the Destruction of Polish Jews has just begun.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

We are pleased to announce another debate in the series entitled: Operation "Reinhardt" - what happened in the Lublin region 80 years ago?

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.