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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.

In the interests of the safety of employees, the State Museum at Majdanek will go completely into remote work from March 16, 2020. This means changing the way of contacting us.

We kindly inform you that the State Museum at Majdanek and its branches in Bełżec and Sobibór are closed to visitors from Thursday, March 12, until further notice.

On March 5th and 6th, ceremonies marking the European Day of the Righteous took place at the Museum and Memorial Site in Bełżec.

On March 3, the inaugural meeting of the new Council of the State Museum at Majdanek took place.

On February 17th, the State Museum at Majdanek together with the branch the Museum and Memorial Site in Bełżec organized a methodical training on extracurricular historical education in post-camp memorial sites. It was attended by 25 primary and secondary school teachers from the Zamość region.

On January 28, delegation from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington visited the Museum and Memorial Site in Belzec. Among the distinguished guests was director Sara J. Bloomfield, members of the Board with families, as well as a museum volunteer, survivor of the Holocaust, who was deported to the Auschwitz death camp in May 1944 from Hungary, Irene Weiss.

During the celebration of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Museum and memorial Site in Bełżec commemorated the murdered Jews.

We join the celebration of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day again this year. The Museum and Memorial Site in Bełżec invites to participate in the opening of an exhibition, historical workshops and a guided tour around the Museum on January 27.

We are presenting an unusual film about a special place – its past and present, the tragic fate of the German concentration camp and the obligations of the museum created on its territory to the next generations.

On December 5th, the Museum and Memorial Site in Bełżec hosted teachers and educators from Ukraine, who arrived in the course of their annual study visit organized by the Ukrainian Centre for Holocaust Studies in Kiev.

On November 3, 2019, young people from Italy visited The Museum and Memorial Site in Bełżec. Nearly 650 students from fourteen schools in Brescia and the surrounding area came to the Museum.

On 26 October 2017, the ceremony commemorating Roma and Sinti, the victims of German Nazi labour camp that operated in 1940, took place in Bełżec.

Places with a difficult history and museums arising in post-camp places – their role, problems, forms of action and perspectives. These issues were the main topics of the nationwide scientific conference 'Histora w przestrzeniach pamięci. Obóz – miejsce – muzeum' (History in spaces of remembrance. Camp – place – museum) which was held in Lublin on October 7–9, 2019.

On October 6, the works of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, Mikołaj Górecki and Wojciech Kilar honoured the commencement of the celebrations of the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the State Museum at Majdanek.

On September 23rd, the Museum and Memorial Site in Bełżec organized a seminar "History - Education - Memory" - this is the third event whose aim is to present topics from the history of World War II, concerning the extermination of Jews, as well as museums in post-camp memorial sites. This year's seminar was held in September as part of the celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II.

From September 14 to 16, Poland hosted an official delegation from 13 most important institutions dealing with museums and places important to the memory of the Holocaust in France. The delegation included, among others, representatives of Memorial de la Shoah, The Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah, National Office for Veterans and Victims of War, Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, Foundation of the Camp des Milles, The Maison d'Izieu Memorial.

On August 22 the Museum in Bełżec hosted educators from France. They came to Poland as part of an educational program organized by the Parisian Mémorial de la Shoah.