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.

Scholarly and publishing endeavours are for the State Museum at Majdanek one of the most significant areas of activity. We could not miss commemorative publications for the 80th anniversary of the institution. They are now available in our bookstore.

On 23 October 2024, at the Lublin Conference Centre, we celebrated the 80th anniversary of the State Museum at Majdanek. It was a spontaneous occasion for a meeting within the circle of museologists and friends of the Museum, reminding of the institution’s history, presentation of present-day activity as well as honouring the most deserving employees.

On 23-24 October 2024 we are celebrating the 80th jubilee of the Museum. We are holding an event that will provide a forum for meeting with the representatives of various museums and institutions – especially the ones anchored in history.

On the 80th jubilee of the State Museum at Majdanek, we once again appealed to the public, calling for donations of the mementos left by the camp survivors to the Museum collections. This request was addressed primarily to the descendants of the former prisoners, who might keep some documents, photographs, or various items related to the camp history in their family archives.

The Majdanek Victims Remembrance Sunday is held this weekend. The event organised under the Museum patronage is held by the St. Father Maksymilian Maria Kolbe Parish and the 32nd Majdanek Remembrance Primary School in Lublin.

The State Museum at Majdanek once again participates in the European Heritage Days. This year the participants of our project will have a special guided tour during which they will learn about the people, who aided the prisoners. The help provided from the world of freedom saved many lives of those imprisoned behind the barbed wire fences of the camp.

22 July 2024 was marked by the 80th anniversary of the final liquidation of the Majdanek German concentration camp. The former KL Lublin’s prisoners, representatives of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the Diplomatic Corps, local authorities, the military, uniformed services, and various organisations dealing with remembrance of World War II – on that day they all gathered near the Column of Three Eagles.

The account of the former KL Lublin prisoner – Bolesław Burski “Jasieńczyk” have just premiered. The memoir written down in 1945–1948 under the title Pawiak–Majdanek–Auschwitz and is now released in print for the first time thanks to the cooperation between the State Museum at Majdanek and the Prószyński publishing house.