Remembrance Walk

A group of a dozen or so people
On March 17, 1942, the first transports of victims arrived at the extermination camp in Bełżec. The deportations of Jews from the ghettos in Lublin and Lwów marked the beginning of “Aktion Reinhardt” – a programme of mass extermination of the Jewish population introduced in the General Government.

On the 84th anniversary of the beginning of “Aktion Reinhardt,” together with young people from schools in Lublin, the local community, and representatives of municipal institutions, we commemorated the fate of the Jewish population. The “Memory Walk,” whose routes symbolically passed through the streets of the former ghetto in Lublin’s Podzamcze district, became a space for reflection, for recalling eyewitness accounts, and for contemplating the tragic experiences of thousands of nameless victims of the Holocaust. The event concluded with a joint laying of flowers at the Monument to the Extermination of the Jewish Population (Victims of the Ghetto).

Two women, one is speaking into a microphone.
  • A group of people, mainly young people.
  • A young man reading an excerpt from an account and a middle-aged woman.
  • A group of young people; in the background, a young woman wearing glasses is speaking into a microphone.
  • A group of several dozen people walking down the street.
  • A group of several dozen people standing on the pavement in front of the block of flats.
  • An aerial view of a group of young people walking down the stairs.
  • Two women: one with light blonde hair is holding a stack of documents, whilst the other, with dark hair, is holding a blue map.