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The Holocaust |
The Concentration Camps |
Majdanek
Located 2.5 miles from the
center of Lublin, Poland
Heinrich Himmler
ordered that a prisoner-of-war camp be built in Majdanek upon his
visit to Lublin in 1941. In 1943, it became a concentration camp.
Between 1942 and 1944, Majdanek exterminated tens of thousands of
its inmates via the gas chamber and crematoria.
The camp was liquidated in July 1944. All that could be destroyed
before the Soviet Red Army arrived was the crematoria, thus making
Majdanek one of the best preserved concentration camps.
You can visit the Majdanek
memorial web site.
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**Visions of
Majdanek 2004** |
Wooden
guard tower |
Memorial to those who died there in 1943.
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Monument to
Struggle and Martyrdom,
connected to the Mausoleum
by the "Road of Homage." |
Crematorium- distant view |
Mausoleum that contains the ashes of those murdered at Majdanek,
the ashes located beneath the dome. Sign states,
"Let our fate be
a warning to you." |
Crematorium |
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