Majdanek Memorial
@MajdanekMuseum
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The world’s oldest museum relating to World War II. We document the history of the German concentration camp at Majdanek and death camps in Bełżec and Sobibór.
Lublin, Polska
Joined October 2016
From the ‘Stärkemeldung’ fragment dated 09.02.1943 preserved in our archives we can learn about the headcount at one of the male prisoner fields at #Majdanek: over 5,000 Poles, over 2,700 Jews and at least around 120 Soviet citizens were kept there at that time.
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09.02.1944|Transport of sick and emaciated prisoners transferred from Mittelbau-Dora arrived at #Majdanek. Among them there was Marcel Giraudet, a French resistance liaison and the underground press distributor. He died in the camp around a month later, on 8 March 1944.
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RT @RadioLublin: – Staramy się przywracać pamięć o ludziach, którzy byli tu osadzeni – mówi kierownik archiwum, Anna Wójcik. @MajdanekMuseu…
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08.02.1943|SS-Gruppenführer Odilo Globocnik was granted authority over Többens & Schultz textile workshops operating in the Warsaw ghetto. Over time, both plants were systematically transferred together with the Jewish slave-workers to the labour camps in Poniatowa & Trawniki.
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07.02.1943|Józef Szczygieł was deported to #Majdanek from the Janowska concentration camp in Lviv. Registered as prisoner no. 4872 he was detained at fields III and II. He worked in the camp construction kommando. In July 1943 Józef was transferred to KL Flossenbürg. He survived.
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04.02.1942|Kriminalsekretär Otto Kloppmann arrived at #Majdanek. He took command of the in-camp Gestapo cell known as Politische Abteilung (political department). Kloppmann’s unit was responsible for keeping prisoner records, investigations, brutal questionings, and executions.
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03.02.1944| Julian Baranowicz, a Polish organist from the Bargłów Kościelny parish, died at #Majdanek. He was arrested as a resistance member, deported to KL Lublin in August 1943 from the Gestapo prison in Białystok, and registered as a political prisoner no. 4181.
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02.02.1944|A transport of around 300 prisoners transferred from KL Neuengamme arrived at #Majdanek. The deportees included Polish, Russian, Dutch, Yugoslavian, French, and German inmates. Among them there was a French journalist Jean Maunier. He died in the camp in early March.
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01.02.1942| The first prisoner money record was registered in the #Majdanek camp files. Due to the poor document’s condition the deposit’s owner remains unknown. From its preserved fragments we know he was a Soviet POW born February 21 and that he initially lodged 40 Reichsmarks.
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31.01.1943|Jan Zakrzewski was deported to #Majdanek from the Łącki St. prison in Lviv. Registered as a political prisoner he worked in the burial & construction groups and the SS canteen. Jan escaped from the last evacuation transport in Lublin on 23 July 1944 & survived the war.
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31.01.1912|Rachela Józia Kanner was born in Przedmieście Dubieckie near Przemyśl. During WWII she lived in Lviv where she was a forced worker at the German uniform production plant. In August 1942 she was deported to SS-Sonderkommando #Belzec and murdered in the gas chambers.
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@aswalli @BarbaraColoroso The Red Army totally disregarded Majdanek upon their arrival at Lublin. They entered the abandoned camp grounds on 24 July, where they only found some former Soviet POWs – invalids who fought for Germany and were kept in the field hospital at the camp. They weren't liberated.
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30.01.1944| Jadwiga Ankiewicz was shot by the German soldiers in one of the streets of Warsaw. She was released from #Majdanek in May 1943 & despite her camp experiences she got engaged in the resistance as a Grey Ranks liaison. She survived Majdanek, but not the war. She was 17.
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RT @PLInst_Wien: Herzlichen Glückwunsch! Der Direktor @MajdanekMuseum, Dr. T.Kranz, wurde vom @HolocaustMuseum mit dem National Leadership…
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RT @AuschwitzMuseum: Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred wa…
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On the Holocaust Memorial Day we gathered with survivors and the youth - our future - to pay homage to the 6,000,000 Jews murdered during the Shoah. They were victims of hatred, racism, and indifference. We must never forget their fates. Never be deaf to the voices of survivors.
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