Another stage of the “Spaces of the Holocaust” project is behind us. After we went to the German and Dutch museums in April and May, and presented our outdoor exhibition in both countries, now it came the time for a revisit of our partners to Poland.

We encourage you to follow our livestreamed debate entitled “40 Years after the Shoah. The Holocaust in the Light of Claude Lanzmann’s Documentary.” The discussion will launch our international conference “Trains of Death – Railways Transports to the German Death Camps. State of Knowledge and Research Proposals” hosted by the State Museum at Majdanek and the Museum and Memorial in Sobibór on 8-10 September 2025.

22 July Marks the 81st anniversary of the final liquidation of the Majdanek German Nazi concentration camp. Between October 1941 and July 1944 over 130,000 deportees went through its gates. Around 78,000 of them perished in the camp.

The children of the Majdanek survivor Ryszard Gawełek: Ms Anna Wyroślak and Mr Tomasz Gawełek visited the museum last weekend. During this moving stay they could learn about our archival resources thanks to our historian Marta Grudzińska. They also donated their family mementos – documents, photographs and personal items of their father.

Addressed to a wide variety of readers, it draws a synthetic picture of the organisation and course of the extermination of Jews in the central and southern German-occupied territories of Poland (known as the General Government). The concise historical outlines are complemented by carefully selected photographs and archival sources.

On 12 June at 6 p.m. at the Museum of Radom History, Rynek 4/5 we are hosting a meeting with our historian and editor Marta Grudzińska. The event is dedicated to the memoir of Zacheusz Pawlak entitled “Przeżyłem” [“I survived”] that has been recently released by the State Museum at Majdanek in cooperation with the Prószyński publishing house. The meeting will also be attended by Wojciech Stan, photographer and dear friend of Zacheusz Pawlak.

In April and May the staff of the State Museum at Majdanek went on study tours at the key museums and education centres of Amsterdam and Berlin. The aim of their networking visit was to learn about the activities and programmes of foreign historical museums and to exchange ideas and experiences with diverse museum professionals.

Together with the Prószyński I S-ka publishing house we proudly present our latest book – the memoir of the former KL Lublin prisoner Zacheusz Pawlak. It is the third edition of his account, but enriched with previously unpublished contents – the author’s description of the Majdanek camp hospital and his report from the perpetrators’ trial in Düsseldorf.

In order to mark the 80th anniversary of the World War II ending in Europe, we share our latest publication prepared for Polish and foreign teachers.

80 years ago, on 8 May 1945, World War II ended. Or maybe – to paraphrase dr Zygmunt Klukowski, who is cited in one of the published essays – we entered the 86th year of war in January 2025?

On 6 May an expert group from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum paid a visit to the State Museum at Majdanek and the Museum and Memorial in Sobibór.

To mark the 80th anniversary of the World War II ending, we invite for a special tour around Lublin.

The State Museum at Majdanek invites you to a unique event during this year’s Night of Museums, which blends history with electronic music.

On 23-28 March 2025 the State Museum at Majdanek with its branches in Bełżec and Sobibór hosted an international exchange for the youth from Poland, Germany, and the Netherlands.

We proudly announce that an exhibition developed by the State Museum at Majdanek is for the first time presented to the audience in the Netherlands. The project entitled “Spaces of the Holocaust: Majdanek, Bełżec, Sobibór” launches at the Kamp Westerbork Memorial, where all visitors can see an exhibition displayed under the same title.

We invite historians, researchers, regionalists, and students, for our academic conference – “Trains of Death – Railway Transports to the German Death Camps. State of Knowledge and Research Postulates – that is going to take place at the Museum in Memorial in Sobibór on 8-10 September.

On 26 January the director of the State Museum at Majdanek dr Tomasz Kranz was granted the National Leadership Award by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The American institution appreciated his long-time engagement in the Holocaust remembrance as well as the input in the field of education in Poland.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day, established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2005, intends to commemorate the victims of Jewish origin murdered during World War II by Nazi Germany. The date of 27 January refers to the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in 1945.

On our 80th jubilee last year we held the “Mementos” campaign, during which we appealed for donating the objects connected with Majdanek’s history to the museum collections. Thanks to your engagement they have been enriched with over 300 artefacts, photographs, and documents.

It is time to draw up a summary of 2024. It was primarily marked by two important anniversaries: the 80th jubilee of the State Museum at Majdanek and the 20th anniversary of creating the Museum and Memorial in Bełżec. In July we recalled the moment when exactly 80 years passed from the final liquidation of KL Lublin.

We are pleased to announce that on December 30, 2024, Hanna Wróblewska, the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, appointed Tomasz Kranz as the Director of the State Museum at Majdanek. He was appointed for a 5-year-term through a competition prcedure.

In 2024, the employees of the Education Department of the State Museum at Majdanek organised and conducted over 120 diverse educational activities for Polish and foreign recipients. 4500 people took advantage of our educational offer by taking part in meetings aimed at promoting knowledge about the former concentration camp at Majdanek.

We are delighted to announce that our publication, "Maryla’s Diary: Life and Death in the Warsaw Ghetto", has been awarded a distinction in the editorial category during the 30th anniversary edition of the KLIO Awards. The winners were announced on 28 November 2024, during the opening ceremony of the Historical Book Fair in the Great Hall of the Royal Castle in Warsaw.

On 14 November 2024, at 5:00 PM, a promotion of the latest publication containing the memoirs of Bolesław Burski „Jasieńczyk”, a former prisoner of the Gestapo Pawiak prison in Warsaw, and later two German concentration camps: Majdanek and Auschwitz, will take place in the scholarly reading room of the Hieronim Łopaciński Provincial Public Library in Lublin.