Nails

Spoon and plate fragment

Thimbles

Flattened mug

We are pleased to announce that on May 26 the State Museum at Majdanek and the Museum and Memorial in Bełżec will become again available to visitors.

Mouth harmonica element

A piece of gas chamber equipment

Presented video is about Karski witnessed the loading Jewish victims on a train in the Izbica transit ghetto.

The film presents Rudolf Reder's account of the extermination mechanism.

Additionally, to celebrate the International Museum Day 2020 together with you, we are presenting the first volume of a new online historical magazine by the State Museum at Majdanek.

Interview conducted in May 2004. It's part of story about the live in Stanisławów ghetto.

On May 18, the International Museum Day is celebrated all across the globe.

Perfume bottles

Buckle belts

We present another artifact - scissors

Ring with a ruby

Shell-case

Teaspoon

Crevasse-Path, Ohel Niche, the surface of the Cemetery-Grave Site, the railroad track sculpture. Since Wednesday, April 22nd, the Museum and the Memorial Site in Bełżec can be visited virtually. Just on the Museum website select the virtual museum tab and then a virtual tour.

We present another artifact - beads.

The items uncovered in the course of archaeological research conducted from 1997 to 1999 at the site of the former German death camp in Bełżec perform the function of testimonies and witnesses of past events. These relics are characterized by extraordinary power of expression.

Looking for a way to continue our activities we decided to move our temporary exhibitions to the Internet. In the "Virtual Museum" tab you will find exhibitions in the Polish language version in pdf format. The exhibitions will be systematically added.

"Aktion Reinhardt" began on the night of 16/17 March 1942 with the liquidation of the ghetto in Podzamcze and the deportation of Jews to the death camp in Bełżec. It was a large-scale operation designed to exterminate the Jewish population, carried out as part of the plan for the so-called "final solution of the Jewish question" outlined by Nazi Germany.

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 “Aktion Reinhardt” – a mass extermination of Jews in the General Government.