The European commemoration of the International Museum Day includes the #ProtectTheFacts campaign organised by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, the United Nations, UNESCO, and the European Commission.

The phrase „never again” very frequently appears as a title to various anti-war exhibitions and events that most commonly refer to World War II. Never Again? used in the form of a question gains an entirely new and grievous meaning as it confronts this timeworn slogan with reality – exposing its futility and shattering hope for those words to come into fruition.

On April 11, 2022, the third meeting of the present Board of the State Museum at Majdanek took place. The session was held at the Museum and Memorial in Sobibór.

After a two-year break caused by the epidemiological situation, we are returning to the seminars organised for the command staff of the Lublin police garrison. The first meeting of the series planned for 2022 took place on 7 April.

On night of 16 to 17 March, 1942, the functionaries of the Sicherheitspolizei [German security police] commanded by Hermann Worthoff entered the Podzamcze ghetto in Lublin. From there, they would send 1,000 Jews every following day, cramped inside the freight cars they were sent to the extermination camp in Bełżec.

The panel discussion organised by the State Museum at Majdanek, entitled “Einsatz Reinhardt” in the context of the “final solution to the Jewish question.” Roles and consequences, is going to feature the leading historians specialising in the subject of the Holocaust. The debate is going take place in Collegium Iuridicum of the Catholic University of Lublin, situated at Spokojna 1 Street in Lublin. The event starts at 5 p.m. on March 17.

We present the new issue of the “Varia” magazine. The contents include historical outlines, archival photographs, and unique documents pertaining to the mass extermination of Jews in the General Government conducted by the Third Reich in the years 1942-1943 under the codename “Einsatz Reinhardt.”

In the face of Russia's military aggression against sovereign Ukraine and the wave of refugees seeking safety on the territory of Poland, the directorate and employees of the State Museum at Majdanek as well as its branches in Bełżec and Sobibór decided to actively help the people affected by war.

On the night of 16–17 March, 1942, the German police functionaries initiated the deportations from the ghetto in Lublin. Around 1,000 Jews, entirely oblivious of their fate, were herded into freight cars and sent to the death camp in Bełżec every day. The annihilation of Lublin’s Jewish community was the first step of the enormous extermination programme codenamed “Einsatz Reinhardt.”

Last weekend was marked with another edition of the "Night of Museums." This year, the events organised as a part of the nationwide campaign which aims at promoting cultural institutions were held both at the State Museum at Majdanek and at its branches in Bełżec and Sobibór. Over the weekend, nearly 1,500 people participated in our events.

This week, a seminar organised at the Museum and Memorial in Sobibór came to an end. The meeting of representatives of many museums and cultural institutions from all across Poland was an excellent opportunity to share experiences on extracurricular historical education and activities promoting various aspects of history. The event was held as part of the 80th anniversary of operation “Reinhardt” organised by the State Museum at Majdanek.

What are the current challenges faced by educators working at memorial sites? What goals should the museum employees pursue while working with the visitors? These are merely two out of many questions asked during this week’s training session from the “Museum in Action” series organised in the education and research facility of the Museum and Memorial in Bełżec.

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising broke out on April 19, 1943. 79 years later, we gathered with the local youth, residents of the city, employees of museums and institutions in Lublin to honour the insurgents and the Jewish residents of the Lublin Region in the form of commemorative walks.

Centre for the Youth Chaplaincy of the Lublin Archdiocese, Catholic Youth Association of the Lublin Archdiocese, and the State Museum at Majdanek are pleased to invite for the 22nd Way of the Cross at Majdanek that will take place on April 8.

On March 30, we held the premiere of a documentary prepared by the employees of the State Museum at Majdanek. “The traces of operation ‘Reinhardt’ in Lublin” was presented in the Screening Room of the Centre for the Meeting of Cultures in Lublin.

On March 29, mass transports of Slovak Jews to the Lublin region began. Between March and June, 1942, about 40,000 people were deported. Almost 8,000 of them were imprisoned at Majdanek. These deportations were a part of the mass extermination programme implemented by the Third Reich under the codename "Einsatz Reinhardt."

On the 80th anniversary of the arrival of the very first transport of Jews from the Podzamcze ghetto in Lublin to the death camp in Bełżec, which initiated the mass extermination programme implemented by the Third Reich under the codename “Einsatz Reinhardt,” we met in the Collegium Iuridicum of the Catholic University of Lublin to restore the memory of those events in the form of a panel discussion.

The first transports of Jewish deportees from the Lublin and Lwów ghettos arrived at the Bełżec extermination camp in Bełżec 80 years ago. These events marked the beginning of operation “Reinhardt.” Within its course the Germans murdered approx. 2,000,000 Jews between the March 1942 and November 1943. We commemorated all the victims of that mass extermination programme during a ceremony held in the Museum and Memorial in Bełżec on March 15.

The Institute of National Remembrance and the State Museum at Majdanek wish to invite everyone for a ceremony held in recognition of the 80th anniversary of the first deportations of Jews to the German extermination camp in Bełżec.

CALL FOR PAPERS || We invite historians, scholars, regionalist researches, and students to participate in the academic conference “The infrastructure of operation ‘Reinhardt.’ Sites, sources, research postulates” which will be held in Lublin on May 23-25, 2022.

42 photographs taken at different times of a day and year comprise the newest publication of the State Museum at Majdanek. The photos taken by Krzysztof Stanek, an employee of our Department of Communications and Public Relations, included in the presented album show the places and buildings located in the former German Nazi concentration camp at Majdanek.

In 2005, the UN General Assembly established January 27th as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This date refers to the day of Auschwitz-Birkenau camp liberation in 1945 and is an opportunity to commemorate Jewish victims who were murdered by Nazi Germany during World War II.

Are you a university student? Do you speak foreign languages? Are you interested in history? The course for a tour guide at the State Museum at Majdanek is your chance to take up a job which is not only easy to combine with studies, but which will also be an opportunity to gain valuable experience and to establish contact with people from all over the world.

On January 11, 2022, the Museum presented a new monograph concerning the history of the German Nazi concentration camp at Majdanek. The book entitled "The Prisoners of KL Lublin 1941-1944" focuses on the fates and personal experiences of the people that for various reasons were deported to the camp from nearly all territories of the German-occupied Europe.