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  • 01.02.2021

    Majdanek. Poets in striped uniforms

    We invite you to see a slightly different perspective of learning about experiences of the prisoners of KL Lublin. This time, we present fragments of this difficult history written in their own poems.

  • 27.01.2021

    Escapes

    In this thread we describe the escapes from Majdanek, external work groups, transports, and labour camps in Lublin.

  • 26.01.2021

    EVACUATION

    On 19 March 1944, the Concentration Camps Inspectorate issued an evacuation order concerning KL Lublin. In the collection of ten outlines we reveal the details regarding that part of Majdanek's history.

  • 22.01.2021

    Tommorow will be better

    „Tomorrow will be better” – in February 1943, Danuta Brzosko-Mędryk used these words to finish the first broadcast of Radio Majdanek. We hope that through these series we will not only discover the history of Majdanek itself, but also find a model worth following in the current difficult period we are all struggling with.

  • 22.01.2021

    Love behind the wires of Majdanek

    In this thread we present the stories of people who experienced love in the times and place that did not at all favour such feelings. Those cases of love were either born behind the barbed wires of Majdanek or were put to a test through separation and detention at the concentration camp.

  • 22.01.2021

    One of a kind – sculptures created in KL Lublin in 1943

    While some of them have not survived and were lost during the difficult post-war period, some remained intact but were relocated. Some of the works look different today than during the war as their polychromy has with time lost its intensity. For the prisoners of the German Nazi concentration camp at Majdanek though, it was the hidden messages embedded in these sculptures that proved the most important.

  • 30.03.2023

    “Maryla’s diary”| The truth about the extermination of Jews. A diary from the Warsaw Ghetto

    The collections of the State Museum at Majdanek contain an extraordinary diary – one of the most important testimonies to the extermination of the Polish Jews. 80 years after the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the Museum in cooperation with the Prószyński Media publishing house, is releasing a new edition of this source. What is this document about? What makes it so important? We encourage you to read the article on this unique source.

  • 10.12.2021

    New secret letters in the Archives of the State Museum at Majdanek - occupational fates of Tadeusz Tuz

    In November 2021, the archival resources of the State Museum at Majdanek were enriched by two secret messages written by Tadeusz Tuz to his family. In 1944 he was imprisoned in the Lublin Castle and then shot at the Majdanek camp.

  • 01.10.2021

    Frauenkonzentrationslager [FKL] – the women’s concentration camp

    On October 1, 1942, the first female prisoners arrived at Majdanek. The date marks the creation of Frauenkonzentrationslager [FKL] – the women’s concentration camp established at prisoner field V. The first women imprisoned at Majdanek were the Polish prisoners displaced from two districts of Lublin – Wieniawa and Dziesiąta, as well as the Jewish inmates deported from the ghettos in Bełżyce and the ghetto at Majdan Tatarski in Lublin.

  • 28.04.2021

    Dutch brooch from the Sobibór collection

    The objects belonging to the murdered that can be seen at the permanent exhibition at the Museum and Memorial in Sobibór were found during archaeological research conducted on the grounds of the former German death camp. The few pieces of jewellery that have survived to this day were probably lost by their owners after leaving the train or overlooked during the segregation of property. One such item is a brass brooch with an embossed genre scene.

  • 12.03.2021

    Until death do us part...

    The fate of the Jewish Kral family from Vienna

  • 22.01.2021

    “Sahara”. The Home Army intelligence at Majdanek.

    A historical cycle concerning the activity of the Home Army intelligence in the Majdanek camp.

  • 15.01.2021

    Air Raids

    A cycle presenting history of air raids on Lublin during World War II.

  • 27.04.2020

    The deportations of Jews to Majdanek (1941–1944)

    Although in the autumn of 1941 construction works at Majdanek were being carried out by the Jewish prisoners from the Lublin labour camp at Lipowa Street and the Jews from Lublin, the victims forced to work were not prisoners of KL Lublin itself. However, after the fiasco of plans to use large groups of Soviet POWs as labourers, from December 1941 to January 1942 several hundred Jews from Lublin and nearby towns were deported to Majdanek.

  • 23.04.2020

    Bolesław Feliks Burski, aka “Jasieńczyk

    The State Museum at Majdanek has begun work on preparing unpublished memoirs of Bolesław Burski (1905–1981), a descendant of Poles exiled to Siberia [Pol.: Sybiracy], an activist of the Polish Socialist Party (PPS), a Home Army soldier, and a prisoner of German concentration camps at Majdanek and Auschwitz.

  • 20.04.2020

    The establishment of the ghetto at Majdan Tatarski and the first selection among Jews in KL Lublin

    In late April, 1942, the Germans created “the model ghetto” at Majdan Tatarski – a suburban industrial district of Lublin. The functioning of the second closed quarter established in the city was inextricably connected with another nearby facility – the Majdanek concentration camp.

  • 15.04.2020

    Children's tags

    Over 11,000 objects were found during archaeological research conducted in the area of ​​the former German Nazi extermination camp in Sobibór. Personal items belonging to the victims of the Holocaust constitute a significant part of this collection.

  • 08.04.2020

    Sobibór collection in the State Museum at Majdanek

    Exhibits from the grounds of the former German death camp in Sobibór consitute part of the collections of the State Museum at Majdanek. The Sobibór collection currently comprises over 9,000 objects entered into the museum inventory and uncovered during the archaeological excavations conducted in the years 2000–2017.

  • 30.03.2020

    The role of Majdanek in “Aktion Reinhardt”

    Konzentrationslager Lublin, established in the autumn of 1941, was an integral element of German plans for the Germanization of eastern territories. The Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler entrusted the implementation of this project to Odilo Globocnik, the SS and police leader in the Lublin District.

  • 27.03.2020

    Femininity in the torrid time

    By the decision of KL Lublin’s commander, in October 1942 a concentration camp meant for 5.000 women was created within field V of Majdanek. Frauen Konzentrationslager (FKL) was an almost autonomous entity which although answered directly to the camp’s commander, was entirely governed and manned by SS Aufseherinen – the female guards led by the head overseer Else Ehrich.

  • 20.02.2019

    Gas chambers at Majdanek

    Extermination installations were built at Majdanek – most sources indicate – at the inspiration of Odilo Globocnik. Additionally, we can assume that the decision to build chambers for murdering people at KL Lublin was indirectly related to Himmler’s order dated 19 July 1942, in which he set the date of 31 December 1942, as the deadline for ‘cleansing’ the General Government of Jews.

  • 22.01.2019

    Fr. Emilian Kowcz - blessed priest from Majdanek

    Let us recall the figure of Father Emilian Kowcz - Greek-Catholic priest who was detained at Majdanek as a result of his aid given, among many others, to Jews. He died in the camp in 1944.

  • 17.12.2018

    Doctor Jan Klonowski’s memorabilia in the collections of the State Museum at Majdanek

    In September 2018 a collection of archives related to Doctor Jan Klonowski was added to the Museum's collections. The remembrances were donated by Antoni Klonowski, his son.

  • 23.11.2018

    Antonina Grygowa - a protector of Majdanek prisoners

    Prisoners of stalags, oflags and the Majdanek camp and Lublin Castle referred to her as ‘Aunt Antonina’ or ‘Dear Mother,’ whereas for habitants of Lublin she was known as a patriotic and social activist, whose social activity was honoured by naming one of the streets of the city after her.

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