The academic seminar "The Architecture of Crime. The Topography and Infrastructure of the ‘Einsatz Reinhardt’ Camps" has ended The online seminar on November 4-5, 2021, was devoted to the logistics and organisation of the genocidal operation in the course of which the Germans established the extermination camps in Bełżec, Sobibór, and Treblinka.

Between August 31 and September 3, 2021, the international seminar entitled “From memory of places to the pedagogy of remembrance” took place in the Museum and Memorial in Sobibór.

There is still a need to reflect upon the purpose and methods of educational processes organised in memorial sites of World War II. To create a forum for international dialogue on this matter a seminar “From memory of places to the pedagogy of remembrance“ for educational project leaders that starts today in the Museum and Memorial in Sobibór.

The transmission of the actual museum space into the online domain and employment of digital technologies in reaching out to the recipients are dominant topics within the contemporary museum discourse. Both issues were analysed and discussed during the training course addressed to the museum employees.

Seminars, study stays, and workshops – activities for various groups of recipients will be held in the education facility of the Museum and Memorial in Bełżec that has just been presented to the public and media representatives.

Today is the National Day of Remembrance for Victims of the German Nazi Concentration Camps and Death Camps. We would like to present the story of Szlama Ber Winer. He managed to escape from the extermination camp in Chełmno nad Nerem and gave detailed testimony of mass extermination of people in gas vans in Chełmno. He most probably perished in the death camp in Bełżec.

Fourteen papers and a transcript of two interdisciplinary debates – publication edited by Tomasz Kranz “Historia w przestrzeniach pamięci. Obozy – ‘miejsca po’ – muzea” has just been issued. It’s the third volume in the series devoted to martyrology museums that has been published in last years by the State Museum at Majdanek. It is a result of an academic conference held in 2019, on the 75th anniversary of the Museum.

A new edition of Dariusz Libionka’s, The Extermination of Jews in the General Government in the German language is a fruit of cooperation between the State Museum at Majdanek and the Metropol Verlag publishing house.

On May 18, International Museum Day is celebrated all across the globe. This holiday was established in 1977 by the International Council of Museums (ICOM).

Clara Kramer was born in 1927 in Zolkiew as Klara Schwarz. She was the first child of Salka (née Reitzfeld) and Meir Schwarz. Her younger sister Mania was born in 1928.

We are pleased to announce that on May 5 the Museum and Memorial in Sobibór and the Museum and Memorial in Bełżec will become again available to visitors.

On April 23–25, a special discount is available in our on-line bookstore.

We encourage you to read the latest issue of the "Varia" magazine. In relation with the 78th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as well as the 79th anniversary of the displacements from the ghetto at Majdan Tatarski, mainly articles on the Holocaust were published in the publication. The publication is available in Polish and English.

This year the John Paul II Public Elementary School in Krościenko Wyżne and the Commission of National Education Secondary School in Dynów joined in the commemoration of the National Day of Remembrance of Poles Rescuing Jews under German occupation organized by the Museum and Memorial Site in Bełżec. The students participated in the on-line classes "Righteous Among the Nations. Testimonies and dilemmas of Poles rescuing Jews during World War II"

Due to the new restrictions introduced by the state authorities to limit the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, we kindly inform you that the State Museum at Majdanek and its branches in Bełżec and Sobibór will be closed to visitors from November 7, 2021, until further notice. Visitor service buildings, museum exhibitions, and memorial sites will not be available to the public.

Today, on the 79th anniversary of "Aktion Reinhardt" and the first deportations of Jews to the Nazi German extermination camp in Bełżec, we are presenting an exhibition entitled 'Every Victim Has a Name' by Ewa Koper, head of the visitor services and education section.

On March 17, 2021, the 79th anniversary of the beginning of "Aktion Reinhardt" was marked at the Museum and Memorial Site in Bełżec.

Sabina Wolanski, born on June 8, 1927 in Borysław, daughter of Fischel Haberman and Sala nee Kulawicz, sister of Josek (born 1924), mother of Phillip and Josephine.

Tomorrow, we will celebrate the European Day of the Righteous. On this day, we commemorate all those who during World War II heroically helped Jews, often risking their own lives. The day was established by the European Parliament in 2012 to honor the memory of those who opposed the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century.

We are pleased to announce that on February 9 the State Museum at Majdanek, the Museum and Memorial in Sobibór and the Museum and Memorial in Bełżec will become again available to visitors.

The newest Polish-English issue of “Varia” magazine was published. This time it summarizes the activities of the State Museum at Majdanek in 2020. Although, due to Covid-19 pandemic, last year it became an unusually difficult challenge to run standard substantial activities, we accomplished a few important projects.

Ruta Wermuth was born in 1928 in the small town of Kolomyja in the Stanisław Voivodship in eastern Poland. Ruta's parents ran a small shop in the center of the town and led a comfortable, middle-class life. Ruta had two older brothers, Paweł and Izrael (nicknamed Salek).

Every year around 27 January, the Museum and Memorial Site in Bełżec pays tribute to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust. In Bełżec the Germans murdered at least 430,000 Jewish children, women, and men.

Like in previous years, Museum and Memorial Site in Bełżec joins to the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Due to the situation caused by COVID-19, we have planned online activities for the day.