13.07.2015
On July 13, 1943, Kazimierz Kobuz (alias Kazimierz) sent a report on the situation in the camp to the OPUS headquarters. His report included:
06.07.2015
On July 2, 1943, the camp fields filled up with hundreds of prisoners from the pacified Zamość region. There are many documents preserved that concern this group of detainees, including 64 money records. 28 of them are related to inhabitants of Aleksandrów. Agnieszka Koman, born 1904 in Aleksandrów, was marked with the highest number on that day – 15350. She was released from the camp on August 8, 1943.
29.06.2015
On June 28, 1942, Adolf Gokorsch, a 43-years-old German criminal from Vienna, was registered in the Majdanek camp. Previously, he had been detained in Dachau, where he was marked camp number 341. At Majdanek he was marked with camp number 108. According to his money records, he – similarly to many German prisoners – made some deposits and withdrawals from his account.
09.06.2015
On June 9, 1942, Józef Czerwisiński (Czerkawski) from Lublin was detained in the Majdanek camp. He was marked with camp number 4737 that earlier had been given to another prisoner. He was most probably released from the camp on September 8, 1942.
02.06.2015
On June 2, 1943, 9 women from Lublin were detained in the Majdanek camp. Among them, there was Maria Wolf, born 1917, who was marked with number 12138 in KL Lublin. As majority of her companions in misery, she was transported to Ravensbrück on April 19, 1944.
26.05.2015
22 maja 1944 r. komendant obozu KL Lublin wydał rozkaz nr 1944/3, w którym odnosił się m.in. do ucieczki więźniów z 15 maja 1944 r. W rozkazie tym możemy przeczytać, że zaostrzono przepisy odnośnie poruszania się samochodami w obrębie obozu. Od tej pory prowadzić pojazdy mogli wyłącznie kierowcy SS posiadający prawo jazdy wydane przez WVHA (SS-Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt – Główny Urząd Gospodarki i Administracji SS).
19.05.2015
On May 22, 1942, a group of Polish prisoners from the Lublin region was brought to the Majdanek concentration camp. They were arrested in Lubartów and its surroundings, and then transported to Lublin. Some of prisoners were given numbers that had been used before in the Majdanek camp – e.g., Maksymilian Jałocha was given number 5426, but most of them were given new numbers above 8300.
12.05.2015
On May 15, 1944, three prisoners fled from Fahrbereitschaft Kommando from field III. They were Mikołaj Stebliński “Sasza,” Michał Nadziejko and Jan Poniatowski. The initiator of the escape plan was “Sasza” Stebliński. On that day he received an urgent task to overhaul the commandants car.
04.05.2015
On May 11, 1944, the Soviet air force executed a bombing of Lublin. The concentration camp at Majdanek was also shelled. The first bombs hit the city at 21:30, and the bombardment of Majdanek began an hour before midnight. The raid left more than 200 casualties in the city alone but didnt kill any prisoners at KL Lublin.
29.04.2015
At the end of April 1943, a transport of people from the Warsaw ghetto, a fight-zone then, reached the concentration camp in Lublin. According to the daily records of the men camp, on the April 26, 1943, there were 12 957 prisoners in a camp. A day later the number rose up to 16 453. This means that within one day the number of inmates increased by 3496.
21.04.2015
On April 22,1944, the camp post office sent a few deliveries, money orders and parcels containing valuable objects. The first and third entry in the post book (entries 187 and 189) concern the shipment of valuable objects belonging to the female prisoners who were transported to the concentration camp in Ravensbrück on April 19, 1944.
14.04.2015
On April 10, 1943, names of 18 prisoners were registered into the record book of the concentration camp in Lublin. They were arrested in the villages of the Lublin District in. Among the detained Poles there were 11 peasants arrested on April 2, 1943, in retaliation for the shooting of a German gendarme in Kolechowice near Lubartów on March 15, 1943.
07.04.2015
On April 7, 1944, the Head of Administration of KL Lublin, Anthon Thernes, added 28.5 grams of gold and 7.5 grams of “white metal” to the camp. These precious metals were probably taken from Jewish inmates of the camp in Bliżyn near Radom. It had been under the authorities of Majdanek since 1944.
23.03.2015
On March 28, 1943, 112 hostages from the area around Włodawa were detained in field IV of the Majdanek concentration camp. They were peasants, put in preventive custody for having murdered District Commissioner Götz and his family. Between March 23 and 26, in reprisal for this murder, German military police pacified a few villages near Włodawa, including Lubień, Wyryki-Adampol, Skorodnica and Kamień.
16.03.2015
Stefan Iwanek, born in 1919 in Lublin, was arrested on March 12, 1943, in Garbów for affiliation to the resistance movement (Bataliony Chłopskie – Polish Peasants Battalions). He was then committed to the prison in the Lublin Castle. On August 13, 1943, he was detained at Majdanek. He was there given number 5288 and got assignment to Gärtnerei Kommando (garden kommando).
09.03.2015
On March 10, 1943, Franciszek Papierz, Antoni Tryka and Wojciech Fronczak from Huta Stara in the Biłgoraj district were incarcerated at Majdanek. They were arrested on March 9, 1943, in retaliation for the attack on the Polish Blue Police station in Huta Krzeszowska which happened on February 27, 1943.
02.03.2015
Władysław Mularczyk (born in 1905 in Stawka) was released from Majdanek on March 6, 1943. Mularczyk arrived at Majdanek in mid-December 1942. His release form captures attention. The original release form was printed on April 9, 1942, when the camp was still known as Kriegsgefangenenlager Lublin (camp for prisoners of war).
24.02.2015
On 24 February 1943, Stanisław Bartoszak, born in 1909 in Kosarzew near Bychawa, was released from the concentration camp at Majdanek. He and a group of hostages from locations between Bychawa and Krzczonów were arrested in autumn 1942.
17.02.2015
On February 16, 1943, several people were detained in the Majdanek camp. Among them there was Feliks Łukasiewicz from Pleszewo (Greater Poland), born 1907. He was marked with camp number 9016. He died on April 1, 1943. According to the camp death certificate, he died from pleurisy.
10.02.2015
Z fragmentarycznie zachowanego dokumentu z 10 lutego 1943 r. odczytać można stan obozu męskiego, który wynosił 8340 więźniów.
04.02.2015
On February 1, 1942, an unnamed Soviet prisoner of war paid in 40 RM (Reichsmarks) to the camp's fund. It was the first recorded contribution, therefore it got no. 1 in the contribution register.
26.01.2015
A doll, dressed in a denim clothing with gray and blue stripes, typical for the female prisoners of the concentration camp, made at the tailors Schneiderei in the Majdanek camp.
21.01.2015
On January 18, 1943, a transport of prisoners from Pawiak, consisting of 1005 men and 331 women, reached Lublin. Among the men there were brothers Mieczysław and Kazimierz Rurka, who lived in the Żoliborz district in Warsaw, in Krasińskiego Street. They were arrested on November 9, 1942, and incarcerated in barracks no. 10 at field III.
19.01.2015
On 14th January 1943, 52 prisoners died in the camp at Majdanek. Only the death of 5 Poles was noted down in the book of prisoners' deaths. The deaths of Jewish hadn't beed recorded for the past two weeks. Jan Jurkiewicz, born in 1904 and living in Podhajce, also died on that day. He was sent to the camp on 4th October 1942 along with 40 other fellow prisoners. The group received the numbers from 16949 to 16989.
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