Varia. 80 Years of the State Museum at Majdanek

The interior of the exhibition, in the foreground an illuminated display case with objects, in the background exhibition boards with historical content.
The worlds’ first museum dedicated to the memory of the victims fallen during World War II was established in Lublin in October 1944, merely three months after the liquidation of the German Nazi concentration camp at Majdanek.

Table of contents:

Anna Wójcik
“Embarking on the Endeavour of Utmost Political Importance for the Reviving Polish State and the World Entire” – Creation of the State Museum at Majdanek

State Museum at Majdanek – Then and Now: Interview with Tomasz Kranz, the Director of the State Museum at Majdanek by Aleksandra Skrabek

Wojciech Lenarczyk
Historical Research in the State Museum at Majdanek,

On the Educational Activities of the State Museum at Majdanek Interview with Wiesław Wysok, the Museum Deputy Director by Nadia Sola-Sałamacha

Aleksandra Skrabek
From Forgotten Extermination Sites to Restoring the Memory of the Holocaust. Museums in Bełżec and Sobibór

On Preserving and Securing the Camp Remnants Interview with Grzegorz Plewik, the Museum Deputy Director by Agnieszka Kowalczyk-Nowak

Marta Grudzińska
Victims’ Voices. “Stories of Personal Experience” Employed in the Museum Activities

Varia. 80 Years of the State Museum at Majdanek