Thanks to this portal, scholars, historians, victims’ family members, and users from all over the world gain an opportunity to freely browse through our collections of documents and photographs. By sharing them on-line, we want to broaden the circle of recipients of those sources and thus to raise the awareness about the history of those camps and the reality of Poland under the German occupation during World War II.
The initial register contains detailed information about 300 objects, and will continuously grow with entries on more documents and archival photographs. Our goal is to also publish those less known materials and even those that have never been presented to the audiences before. The portal additionally includes the digital representations of various post-camp artefacts, and testimonies given by witnesses and survivors of Majdanek. Each object includes a detailed description that puts it in a broader historical context.
The premiere of the Digital Majdanek is the element of a broader process digitalisation of Museum archival resources undertaken through the “Infrastructure of Culture 2026” programme. The digitalisation studio equipped with high quality scanner and other latest equipment will work towards expanding the portal. That in turn will increase the availability of museum collections and accelerate the process of their browsing by scholars and other users that are interested in the history of Majdanek, Bełżec, and Sobibór. The newly equipped studio will improve colour fidelity and reproduction quality for exhibition purposes, and will enable professional editing of archival film materials, including the testimonies of the former prisoners.
The task “Modernisation of Infrastructure for the Digitalisation Studio of the State Museum at Majdanek” is financed by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage – Culture Promotion Fund of the Infrastructure of Culture Programme 2026.
Subsidy of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund.
Ministry subsidy value: 228,000 PLN
State Museum at Majdanek own funding: 79,649 PLN
