New educational activities dedicated to Polish, English and German participants have appeared in the educational offer of the Museum.

On October 24, students of the Stefan Batory Elementary School no. 4 in Zamość took part in the third workcamp at the Memorial Site in Bełżec.

The State Museum at Majdanek and the Henryk Wieniawski Lublin Philharmonic cordially invite on 4 November, 6 pm., to symphonic concert “In Memory of the Holocaust Victims.” It is organized on the 75th anniversary of operation “Erntefest” (“Harvest Festival”), in course of which on 3-4 November 1943 Germans shot 42 thousand Jews in the concentration camp at Majdanek and in labor camps in Trawniki and Poniatowa.

In the State Museum at Majdanek, the third edition of methodological training for extracurricular historical education in post-camp memorial sites took place. It was so popular that we have organized it twice: on 6 and 20 October. It was participated by over 100 teachers and educators from all over Poland.

On September 26, a study visit at the Museum and Memorial Site in Bełżec of students from the Konarski Secondary School in Rzeszów and from the Gymnasium and Stadtteilschule Finkenwerder in Hamburg took place.

Since 2013, the State Museum at Majdanek has been undisputed leader in the Lublin region. For the next time we have been rewarded with the Travellers’ Choice Attractions Award given by the users of TripAdvisor® – the world’s largest travel sites.

On August, 11, 2018, in Memorial Site in Bełżec, an exceptional meeting of two families – descendants of Maciej and Cecylia Brogowski from Bełżec and members of Irena Sznycer’s family took place.

The State Museum at Majdanek has just released its recent publication on the subject of education at memorial sites. The publication 'Pedagogy of remembrance. Theory and practice of education in martyrological museums', edited by Tomasz Kranz, contains materials from the international conference organised by the State Museum at Majdanek in October 2017.

On August 23, 2018, teachers and educators from France visited the Museum - Memorial Site in Bełżec. The French came to Poland as a part of an educational program prepared by Memorial de la Shoah in Paris in cooperation with several Polish institutions.

The State Museum at Majdanek cordially invites teachers from primary, middle and high schools to the third edition of methodological training for extracurricular historical education in post-camp memorial sites: ‘Tell about us, nameless...’ It will take place on 6th of October, 2018 at the Visitor Service Centre of the State Museum at Majdanek in Lublin.

Students from the State Police School in Hamburg visited a few museums and historical sites commemorating the victims of World War II and Nazi crimes. Their visit was related to the events from 76 years, when the Hamburg Reserve Police Battalion 101 started its monstrous activity in the Zamość region.

On June 4, 2018, on the 14th anniversary of the opening of the Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec, the 2nd Workshop ‘History-Education-Memory’ was held.

On 29 May, 2018, the awarded students participated in the educational trip to Lublin. The common trip was the main award for those acquainted with a dramatic visage of the Second World War through the history of their own families. The daylong stay aimed to emphasize the importance of memory, continuance and the value of preservation of the historical objects. All those elements are clearly visible in the 700-year history of Lublin.

On May 26, the Museum - Memorial Site in Bełżec was visited by participants of the 37th Conference of the Polish-German Textbook Commission of UNESCO Historians and Geographers entitled ‘Second World War in historical education in Poland and Germany: knowledge, teaching methods and forms of presentation’, which took place in Zamość.

The next ebook is now available in our museum bookshop. Publication “Zur Pädagogik der Erinnerung. Bedingungen, Ziele und Methoden historischer Bildung in Gedenkstätten“ [Pedagogy of remembrance. Determinants, aims and methods of historical education in memorial sites], ed. Tomasz Kranz, is intended for museologists, teachers and other persons involved in social and political education.

On May 22, 2018, the celebrations of the 76th anniversary of the largest deportation of Jews from the ghetto in Tomaszów Lubelski were organized.

Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec prepared a new museum lesson for students from the secondary and high schools.

The Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec was visited by the participants of the training for directors and managers of cultural institutions from the Lublin Voivodeship, organised by Regional Culture Centre in Lublin and the Commune Cultural Centre in Susiec.

The exhibition ‘Res non humana – an inhuman thing. German occupation of Zamość region 1939-1944’ in the Stanisław Kostka Starowieyski Secondary School in Łaszczów.

On April 19, 2018, the project ‘Żonkile’ [Daffodils] was fulfilled within the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which refers to the 75th anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. This project was organized by Pedagogical Library of Zamość, division in Tomaszów Lubelski in collaboration with the Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec. The students from the B. Głowacki School no. 1 in Tomaszów Lubelski participated in the project.

In the High School in Lubaczów, as the part of the Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorating the 75th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, educational workshops were held.

On March 19, 2018, the 76th anniversary of the beginning of "Aktion Reinhardt" was marked at the Museum - Memorial Site in Bełżec.

On March 16 in the Faculty of Humanities of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, we have prepared two open lectures on the 76th anniversary of the beginning of "Aktion Reinhardt." The event attracted huge audience which is a proof of big interest in this difficult part of history.

On 27 February the meeting of the Museum Board of the State Museum at Majdanek took place. By unanimous vote, the board members adopted Museum’s activity report for 2017 as well as a work plan for the next year.