The ceremony commemorating the 79th anniversary of the KL Lublin liquidation took place in the Museum on July 24. It was joined by former prisoners of the Majdanek camp, representatives of local government and institutions.

The State Museum at Majdanek begins the renovation of the Mausoleum – one of the most recognisable monuments honouring the victims of World War II.

We present our new book in which we analyse "Einsatz Reinhardt" – the largest and the most bloody genocidal operation of World War II, focusing on its logistics and the extermination apparatus.

At 5 p.m. on 20 June we invite everyone to the Majdanek, Bełżec, and Sobibór memorials for a special discussion: “The Landscapes of the Holocaust - the importance of the Lublin region in the history and commemoration of the mass extermination of Jews during World War II.” The root for the discussion, during which we will symbolically connect three memorial sites of operation “Reinhardt” camps, is the premiere of our new book.

In Poland every June 14 is known as the National Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camps established on the anniversary of the first transport of Polish prisoners sent to KL Auschwitz. The State Museum at Majdanek once again joins the commemoration of this special date.

On 22 April 2023, the State Museum at Majdanek hosted a nationwide conference entitled "Road to the Shoah - culture and pedagogy of remembrance in Holocaust education". The event was the result of the cooperation of the Warsaw Centre for Educational and Social Innovation and Training with memorial sites and cultural institutions, which organised a series of seminars for teachers in the past months.

The Holocaust Memorial Day and Day for the Prevention of Crimes against Humanity is commemorated on the anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In the early morning of 19 April 1943, German army and police units entered the Warsaw Ghetto, which, in accordance with Heinrich Himmler's orders, were to carry out the final liquidation of the Jewish residential quarter of Warsaw.

On the Holocaust Remembrance Day we present the new issue of our "Varia" magazine. This volume is dedicated to the subject of education at the State Museum at Majdanek, particularly to the Holocaust education.

The collections of the State Museum at Majdanek contain an extraordinary diary – one of the most important testimonies to the extermination of the Polish Jews. On the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising we are holding a lecture on “Maryla’s diary” which constitutes a vital record of the tragic events from the time of the Warsaw Ghetto liquidation.

"Maryla's Diary. Life and Death in the Warsaw Ghetto". Book premiere
"Maryla's Diary" is one of the most moving and unique testimonies written during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. On the 80th anniversary of the events it describes, the State Museum at Majdanek in cooperation with Prószyński Media publishing house is releasing a new edition of this source. On 20 April at 6 p.m.we are holding a meeting around the book in the Visitor Service Centre.

The State Museum at Majdanek was visited by a delegation from Sweden - Paweł Ruszkiewicz, the director of the Polish Institute in Stockholm, and the representatives of the Raoul Wallenberg Academy.

The sound of the Bell of Peace began the Way of the Cross at Majdanek. For the 23rd time, several thousand people gathered to participate in this exceptional event.

The collection of the State Museum at Majdanek ) contains an extraordinary diary – one of the most important testimonies to the extermination of the Polish Jews. 80 years after the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, in cooperation with the Prószyński Media publishing house we are releasing a new edition of this source

On 16 March 1942, at 5.30 p.m. Hermann Höfle - an Austrian Nazi, at the head of the so-called "resettlement staff", and the chief logistician of the extermination of Jews in the General Government - convened a meeting of SS officers, security police functionaries, and the German civil administration representatives in Lublin. The subject of the meeting briefing was Odilo Globocnik's planned operation to liquidate the ghetto in Lublin‘s Podzamcze.

We present the new volume of our "Varia" magazine. The new issue focuses on the fates, camp experiences, cultural and resistance activities of the Polish political prisoners deported to Majdanek in January 1943.

Within the framework of teaching about the Holocaust, the Education Department of the State Museum at Majdanek prepared a series of meetings and workshops for the students of the Maria Skłodowska-Curie General education liceum No. 5 in Lublin.

On 4-5 March, as part of the 'Road to the Shoah' programme implemented by the Warsaw Centre for Educational and Social Innovation and Training, we prepared a two-day seminar for teachers.

On 6 March 2023, the Museum Council at the State Museum at Majdanek met. The Council members unanimously approved the report on the Museum's activities in 2022 and adopted the work plan for the current year.

On the International Holocaust Remembrance Day we commemorate the 6,000,000 Jews murdered by the Nazi Germany during World War II. The number includes the victims of operation "Reinhardt" - the mass extermination of Jews in the General Government.

Is the concept of architecture relevant with regards to the German Nazi extermination camps – places where the SS-men destroyed nearly the entire infrastructure used in the mass extermination of Jews persecuted by the Third Reich? Were there any differences between the spatial organisation of concentration and extermination camps? Should historical objects in sites like Bełżec, Sobibór, Treblinka, or Majdanek be subjected to reconstruction?

“The transport was very tough. It was winter – 20 degrees of frost.” – as recalled by Leszek Zabłocki. Exactly 80 years ago the first group of Polish political prisoners, sent from the Gestapo Pawiak prison arrived at the Majdanek concentration camp

Historical debates, conferences, educational seminars, film projects, and exhibitions –events commemorating the 80th anniversary of the operation “Reinhardt” were at the centre of activities held by the State Museum at Majdanek in 2022.

Throughout 2022, the Education Department at the State Museum at Majdanek prepared and carried out over 190 various educational activities for 5100 people from Poland and abroad.

Four objects from our textiles collection of more than 5,000 pieces underwent full conservation in an external studio this year. The State Museum at Majdanek regularly preserves the prisoner clothing from its collections. This time some civilian clothes with prisoner markings – two jackets and two pairs of trousers – have undergone this kind of work.