State Museum at Majdanek
An invitation to „Days of Majdanek” 16-19 September, 2010
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The State Museum at Majdanek
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The Society for the Protection of Majdanek
kindly invite to
“Days of Majdanek”
16-19 September 2010
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An invitation to the debate entitled: What next with Majdanek?
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The State Museum at Majdanek would like to invite the debate entitled What next with Majdanek? A debate about problems, needs and perspectives of the Museum development, which will be held on September 16, 2010 during the Days of Majdanek. The beginning of the debate is planned at 12.00 in the Visitor Service Centre in the Museum – ul. Droga Męczenników Majdanka 67, Lublin. >>> |
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The Visitor Service Centre of the State Museum at Majdanek invites everyone to explore the new possibilities of visiting the former German concentration camp. We suggest that all visitors interested in the history of Majdanek take guided tours for individuals (in the so-called parties). >>>
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Oferta pracy w Muzeum: Asystent dyrektora – rzecznik prasowy
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Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku poszukuje kandydatek i kandydatów na stanowisko Asystent dyrektora – rzecznik prasowy. >>> |
The unique objects from the ghetto in Majdan Tatarski in the deposit of the State Museum at Majdanek
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On August 26-27, 2010 the Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation deposited a set of objects in the State Museum at Majdanek. The objects had been found in 1988 during construction works in the area of the former ghetto in Majdan Tatarski. >>>
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A workcamp project at the Memorial Site. Volunteers in the State Museum at Majdanek
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A workcamp project at Memorial Site is a form of education combining a possibility to learn about the history of Majdanek concentration camp with a phisical work as an active contribution to the Museum. During two weeks, between 14-28 September, 2010, volunteers from Poland and Germany took part in a series of lessons, workshops and presentations organised by the Museum as well as were making restoration works in the historical areas of former concentration camp. >>>
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Repair works in the State Museum at Majdanek
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The State Museum at Majdanek is currently carrying out the second stage of the largest investment programme within the last thirty years, i.e. the renovation works of roads and pathways in the whole area of the museum. So far the road along the exhibition barracks has been renovated and so has the car park next to the entrance to the exhibition. Moreover, Prisoner Fields IV and V have been surrounded by a new pathway. This year the road and pavement leading from the car park to the crossroads with the Road of Homage and Remembrance will be covered with a new surface. The road across Prisoner Field III, which is a part of the visiting route, will also be repaired. >>>
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Voice of the Youth – international project at Majdanek
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On August 21, 2010 the State Museum at Majdanek started an international educational project entitled Voice of the Youth – international exchange for Shoa memory. The workshops have been organized by the Museum in cooperation with The Well of Memory Association within the framework of the programme financed the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. >>>
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The State Museum at Majdanek hosted His Holiness Patriarch Bartholomeo I of Constantinopole
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On August 20, 2010 Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku the State Museum at Majdanek hosted His Holiness Patriarch Bartholomeo I of Constantinopole. At the Mausoleum, where the ashes of the murdered are laid, the Patriarch laid flowers and paid tribute to the victims by saying the prayer for their intention. He also learnt about the history of the concentration camp at Majdanek and visited the crematorium and made an inscription in the Memorial Book of the Museum. >>> |
New acquisitions in the Archives of the State Museum at Majdanek
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A few days ago original materials documenting the fate of one of the prisoners were donated to The Archive of the State Museum at Majdanek. These are mainly secret messages sent from prison, and subsequently from the concentration camp at Majdanek. They were written by Stanisław Boroń, brought to Majdanek from Kolomyia at the beginning of February 1943 in the first transportation from Lvov. So far the State Musuem at Majdanek has only had a card from the Polish Red Cross files with his name. >>>
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Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies in cooperation with State Museum at Majdanek and Auschwitz Memorial Museum (Poland) and under the support of American Jewish Committee and Claims Conference are holding on 14-20 August 2010 a research-methodical seminar "History of the Holocaust on the territories of Western Ukraine and Poland". >>> |
The announcement of the Management of the State Museum at Majdanek in Lublin
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At night between 9-10 August 2010, from yet still unknown reasons, on the grounds of the State Museum at Majdanek the fire broke out in one of the historical barracks (a former kitchen on Prisoner Field 3). The building has been almost complately destroyed. A large amount of the prisoners’ shoes deposited there have also been burnt. A quick response of the Museum security and effective action of the fire brigade prevented the fire from spreading to further historical objects. >>>
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Dialogue with the past and memory of the past may become more fruitful and creative if they are held in authentic historical places. Visiting such places combined with project participants’ independent work opens new opportunities for exploring the past.
This kind of active way of experiencing the history has been chosen by the students of the University of Cologne during the seminar organized in Lublin and other memorial sites in the Lublin region by the Majdanek Department of Education between July 24 and August 1, 2010.
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New photographs in the Search section
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The State Museum at Majdanek would like to inform that we have placed new photographs from the collection of photographs found on the premises of the former concentration camp at Majdanek in 1944 in the Search section. >>>
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The State Museum at Majdanek would like to inform that during August and September 2010 there will be renovation works of roads and pavements on the grounds of the Museum. Therafore, some roads, pavements and car parks will be temporarily inaccessible for visitors. >>> |
Invitation to the openning of the Majdanek – photography inspiration exhibition
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The event entitled ‘PhotoDay in State Museum at Majdanek’ took place on November 21st, 2009. The Majdanek concentration camp was a venue of an outdoor photography event organised by ‘Moje Miasto Lublin’ paper. The aim of that event was to interest Lublin’s citizens into history of that place, which, between 1941 and 1944, was functioning as one of the biggest concentration camps in Europe. >>>
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The 66th anniversary of liquidation of the Konzentrationslager Lublin
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66 lat temu, 23 lipca 1944 r., oddziały Armii Czerwonej wkroczyły na teren obozu koncentracyjnego na Majdanku, zastając niewielkie grupy polskich cywili i jeńców wojennych – żołnierzy Armii Czerwonej. W tegorocznych obchodach 66. rocznicy likwidacji KL Lublin, poświęconych pamięci jeńców wojennych więzionych w niemieckich obozach na Lubelszczyźnie w latach II wojny światowej wzięli udział przedstawiciele konsulatu Ukrainy w Lublinie, administracji rządowej, władz miejskich, kuratorium oraz środowisk kombatanckich. >>>
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The Museum – Memorial Site in Bełżec informs that from July 22 to September 24, 2010 ‘The Crevasse-Road’ and ‘The Ohel Niche’ at the memorial site of the Musuem will be inaccessible to visitors due to conservation works. We apologise for the inconvenience. |
Zaproszenie do udziału w konferencji: Wokół Zagłady – nowe perspektywy badawcze
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Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku, Stowarzyszenie „Studnia Pamięci”, Zakład Kultury i Historii Żydów UMCS, oraz Koło Naukowe Studentów Judaistyki UMCS zapraszają na ogólnopolską, interdyscyplinarną konferencję naukową, która odbędzie się na Uniwersytecie Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie w dniach 3-4 listopada 2010. Wokół Zagłady – nowe perspektywy badawcze Konferencja w 67. rocznicę Akcji Erntefest Lublin, 3-4 listopada 2010 |
Internet image transfer from Lublin to Nuremberg
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The State Museum at Majdanek is one of the partners in the “The Track” project organized by the Documentation Centre Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg. Between May 19 and October 31, 2010, the Documentation Center shows the exhibition "The Track. The Logistics of Racial Mania". Prepared on the occasion of the 175th anniversary of German railways, the exhibition documents their role in the extermination of Jews. >>> |
Voice of the Youth – invitation
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The State Museum at Majdanek and The Well of Memory Association would like to invite to take part in educational project entitled Voice of the Youth – international exchange for Shoah memory, which will be held between August 21 – 30, 2010 in Lublin. The participation is free of charge. Organisers cover costs of accommodation and board in Lublin, travel to memorial sites in Bełżec and Sobibór, and 90% reimbursement of travel expenses to Poland. >>>
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Between June 27 and July 2, 2010, the Department of Education of the State Museum at Majdanek and the International Youth Meeting House in Oświęcim organized a historical seminar whose aim was to familiarize the volunteers of Action Reconciliation Service for Peace with the course and consequences of German occupation in the Lublin region. In September the volunteers from Germany who took part in the project are starting their service in museum-memorial sites, institutions commemorating the victims of the Second World War and social security centres in Europe and the USA. >>>
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On June 25, 2010 the State Museum at Majdanek hosted His Holiness Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem and all Palestine. At the Mausoleum, where the ashes of the murdered are laid, the Patriarch paid tribute to the victims, said the prayer for their intention, and laid flowers. He also learnt about the history of the concentration camp at Majdanek and visited the crematorium.>>>
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Peer education. The students from Poland and Germany in the Museum at Majdanek
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One of the most important postulates of historical pedagogy is the activity of the addressee of the memorial site. Peer education is a form of activating youth in a place commemorating the victims of terror. The participants of the project are trained to be guides around the historical exhibition and after that they take an active part in discussing selected aspects of Majdanek’s history.
This form of getting acquainted with the history of the concentration camp in Lublin and the lives of its prisoners was chosen by the students of Domschule Schleswig and the students of Stefan Czarniecki XLVI High School in Warsaw, who visited Majdanek on June 17, 2010.
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The State Museum at Majdanek visited by a team of museum employees from Ukraine
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On June 11, 2010 the Museum at Majdanek hosted a delegation of museum employees from Ukraine. The visit, organized by the Polish Press Agency, aimed at familiarizing the guests with the activity of the Museum and establishing contacts that may encourage cooperation in the field of education, research and exhibitions. >>> |
Photography exhibition in School Complex No 5 in Lublin
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In April 2010 the Department of Education of the State Museum at Majdanek organized an educational project entitled “The living memory of Shoah” for the students of School Complex No 5 in Lublin. A photography workshop, which was a part of the project, aimed at encouraging the participants to look for their own ways of discovering the history of KL Lublin. The final product of the students’ activities was the photos taken in the area of the State Museum at Majdanek. The space and the surviving relics of the former camp became the starting point for facing the tragic history of its prisoners. >>>
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Preserving the memory – Polish and German workcamp in the State Museum at Majdanek
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The authentic memorial sites, which witnessed the tragedy of thousands of people, provide the visitors with a unique possibility to cognitively communicate with the past and actively associate with the relics. The didactic postulate of activating the memory of the past is carried out by engaging students in educational classes which have the form of historical workshop. This way of learning about the history of the concentration at Majdanek was chosen by the students of Realschule in Lemgo and Mikołaj Kopernik High School No IX in Lublin. >>>
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Leonardo programme in the State Museum at Majdanek
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For the last three months our museum has hosted Lydia Görlitz from Germany who is a trainee within the framework of Leonardo da Vinci programme financed by the European Union. From March till June 2010 she was engaged in the works of The Department of Education, preparing educational materials for German-speaking groups. Her work focused on the trial of the Majdanek crew members in Düsseldorf in the years 1975-1981. >>>
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From March to June 1942 more than 15,000 German Jews were deported to the Lublin District. Most of them were killed during the ‘Operation Reinhardt’ in death camps in Bełżec, Sobibór and the concentration camp at Majdanek as well as transit ghettos including the ones in Izbica, Piaski and Zamość.
Between June 3 and 6, 2010 a group of German youth from Georg Büchner Schule in Darmstadt, from which deportations to the Lublin District ghettos and the Nazi death camps took place as well, visited the places related to the tragic fate of the Jews deported to the Lublin region. The aim of the project was for the students to learn about the Topography of Extermination and commemorating its victims. >>>
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In 2009 the State Museum at Majdanek prepared a publication presenting the educational offer of the Museum. This publication, destined for teachers and for all who are interested in taking part in educational activities organised by the Museum, contains a range of practical tips and useful information. The English and German language versions have been published this year for foreign educators. All language versions a available to download as a .pdf file. >>> |
Difficult Past. Young Police Officers from Hamburg in the Museum at Majdanek
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The State Museum at Majdanek has once again hosted the students of the Police School in Hamburg, who visited the places of remembrance in the Lublin region as a part of historical and civil education projects. >>>
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Looking through their eyes. Affective photography workshop
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On April 27, 2010, cooperating with the 5i6 Photo Studio in Lublin, the Department of Education of the State Museum at Majdanek has organized educational classes devoted to the history and commemoration of the victims of the former German concentration camp at Majdanek. The participants of the project made a difficult attempt to visualize the past in the form of black and white photography. >>>
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Places – the Witnesses of Shoah. A study journey around the Lubelskie region
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On April 13, 2010 the concentration camp at Majdanek was visited by members of the Austrian organization Forschungsstelle Nachkriegsjustiz, which does research on post-war trials. >>> |
The living memory of the Shoah. Majdanek in the former prisoners’ reminiscences
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On 19 April Poland celebrates The Holocaust Memorial Day. The extermination of Jews was an unprecedented crime in the long history of humanity. The Lublin region became one of the main areas where the Nazis committed genocide acts against thousands of Jewish children, women and men. The Jews died as a result of hunger, terrible living and sanitary conditions, hard work, executions and extermination in death camps. >>> |
Pokoje Pamięci Brunona Schulza - a Leszek Mądzik exhibition
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The State Museum at Majdanek would like to invite, again after the winter brake, to the Leszek Mądzik exhibition entitled: "Pokoje Pamięci Brunona Schulza". We would liek to inform that on April 19 at 5 pm, in the barrack number 56, another author's presentation of this exhibition dedicated tho the famous artist from Drohobycze will happen. The exhibition will be accessible to the visitors untill April 30, between 9 am and 5 pm. The entrace is possible after prior notification under the tel. number +48 81 445 45 02. (Further information about the exhibition in Polish only). >>> |
The way of the cross at Majdanek
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The way of the cross service took place at the premises of the former concentration camp at Majdanek on 26th March 2010. Parts of the recollections of the former Majdanek prisoners were the source of reflections and ruminations. >>> |
A subsidy for the conservation of a part of Museum's textile collections
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The State Museum at Majdanek informs that it received a subsidy from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage on the basis of the decision dated February 4, 2010, following the application submitted in the first recruitment in the Department of the Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage within the framework of the program “Cultural Heritage – Priority 2: Supporting museum activities”. The subsidy is 100,000 Polish zlotys and it is going to be spent on a project called “The conservation of striped jackets, luggage badges and dolls”, which was prepared by the Department of Collections. The project will be funded with the money received from the Ministry of Culture and the museum’s own means. >>>
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Celebration of the 68th anniversary of the begining of Jews extermination in the death camp Belzec
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On 17 March 2010 the Museum-Memorial Site in Bełżec celebrated the 68th anniversary of the first deportations of Jews from Lublin and Lviv ghettos. >>> |
A modern workshop of digitalizing collections for the Museum
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The endeavors of the Museum to raise additional funds for its activity ended in success. The results of the first recruitment of the applications submitted within the framework of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage programmes carried out in 2010 have been published. >>>
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On February 23, 2010 the annual meeting of the Council of the State Museum at Majdanek was held. >>>
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Youth from Canada in the State Museum at Majdanek
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On February 19, 2010 a group of students and PhD candidates of the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada took part in a study day organized by the Department of Education of the State Museum at Majdanek. >>> |
New purchases by the Archives of the Museum
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We would like to thank Mr Andrzej Maksymowicz for donating the original documents concerning his father Edward Maksymowicz. >>>
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Historical practice for young Germans
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Stimulating students during educational activities, enabling them to learn about history by discovery and individual work is one of the basic tasks of the Museum’s pedagogic activity. Historical practice for students is one of the forms of active education in the Majdanek memorial museum. The issues that students deal with are connected with different aspects of Nazi ideology, the history of concentration camps, as well as the consequences of the Second World War and the forms of commemorating the victims of the Third Reich. >>>
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Museum guide training for students
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The Department of Education of the State Museum at Majdanek has organized another edition of specialist training for the students of Lublin universities. The aim of the training was to prepare them to show visitors round the historical exhibition and the grounds of the former concentration camp at Majdanek. >>>
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New prices for guided tours, educational activities and parking fees
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The State Museum at Majdanek would like to inform the visitors that following March, 1st 2010 new charges for tour guide services and educational activities are introduced. Simoultanously new parking fees are introduced. >>>
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On February 2, 2010 the lower and upper secondary students from Narol took part in the museum lesson devoted to the creative activity of the prisoners at Majdanek. >>>
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The Memory of Shoa. The journey to memorial sites
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Within the framework of social and political education the Lubelskie region was visited by a group of youth from Österreichische Gewerkschaftsjugend, which is one of the biggest organizations in Austria. The main purpose of the study tour around memorial sites in Poland was acquiring knowledge about the history of the extermination of Jews in the museums commemorating this fact.>>>
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Celebration of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day
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On January 27, 2010 the State Museum at Majdanek organized a celebration of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. During the Second World War Majdanek became one of the extermination centres. 60 thousand Jews died here. They came mainly from Poland, but also from Slovakia, the Chech Republic, Germany and Austria. >>> |
Educational classes: The history of KL Lublin: memory – dialogue - future
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For a long time Polish-German historical workshops have been an important element of cross-cultural social and historical education carried out in the State Museum at Majdanek. Apart from popularizing the history of the concentration camp at Majdanek, the main purpose of such projects is shaping the modern culture of remembrance about the victims of the World War II in the European context. The cross-cultural dialogue and mutual work of young people from different countries in a place marked with a tragic history create a unique opportunity to communicate and break stereotypes and mental barriers. >>>
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A Christmas Meeting of the Society for the Protection of Majdanek
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On January 16, 2010 there was a Christmas meeting organized by the Society for the Protection of Majdanek and the Association of the Former Prisoners of Nazi Prisons and Concentration Camps, a division in Lublin. >>>
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The publication is devoted to the World War Two biggest Nazi genocidal operation whose code name was „Erntefest” (“Harvest Festival”). On November 3rd and 4th 1943 German Nazists murdered around 42 thousand Jewish prisoners in the concentration camp at Majdanek, the Trawniki and Poniatowa labour camps and a couple of smaller camps in the Lublin District. >>>
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German plans to colonize the occupied Middle-Eastern Europe historical workshop
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On 22-24 November the students of Magdeburg School of Applied Sciences attended the classes organized by the Education Department of the State Museum at Majdanek. The classes were devoted to the main objectives of the German occupation and extermination policy in the Lublin district in the years 1939-1944. The agenda included a visit to the concentration camp at Majdanek, learning about the history of Lublin in the context of Nazi occupation, working in the archives and taking part in the historical workshop devoted to the German colonization and Germanization plans contained in the Generalplan Ost.>>>
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Photo Day open-air photography workshop in the State Museum at Majdanek
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On November 21, 2009 on the initiative of „Moje Miasto Lublin” newspaper, the State Museum at Majdanek hosted an open-air photography workshop, which was a part of a cyclic event entitled „Photo Day”. >>>
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Pokoje Pamięci Brunona Schulza - a Leszek Mądzik exhibition
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Between November 13 and 21, 2009, The State Museum at Majdanek had honour to host the Leszek Mądzik exhibition entitled: Pokoje Pamięci Brunona Schulza. The event took place in the barrack number 56 located on the grounds of the Museum. (Further information about the exhibition in Polish only) >>> |
Ceremonies and conference for the 66th anniversary of Erntefest
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On November 3, 2009, for the anniversary of operation „Erntefest", the conference entitled: „The history and remembrance of the extermination of Jews in Lubelszczyzna" was held. The conference was organized by the Association „Studnia Pamięci”, the Institute of Culture and History of Jews UMCS and the State Museum at Majdanek.
On the very same day, in the State Museum at Majdanek, for the homage of the victims of operation "Erntefest" the flowers were laid at the monument commemorating the events on November 3, 1943. >>> |
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On October 23, 2009 the Education Department of the State Museum at Majdanek organized a class for a group of students from Stefan Czarniecki High School in Warsaw and Otto Hahn lower secondary school in Göttingen. The class was based on the idea of peer education and involved engaging the students in giving tours around the museum exhibition. >>>
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A former prisoner, Jan van Kuik from Netherlands visited the State Museum at Majdanek
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On 13-14 October, 2009 the State Museum at Majdanek had the honour to host Mr. Jan van Kuik, a former Majdanek prisoner. After visiting the exhibition and the area of the museum, Mr. van Kuik went to the Museum Archives, where he looked into the documents connected with his imprisonment at Majdanek. He also gave an account of his experiences in the camp. >>> |
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On October 19, 2009 the Education Department of the State Museum at Majdanek organized a methodical and educational seminar for teachers and other educators interested in extracurricular historical education in memorial sites. The classes were attended by lower and upper secondary teachers from Lublin, Świdnik and Wąwolnica and the representatives of the Social Education Centre at the “Happy Childhood” Foundation. >>>
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In the context of the generation change and the fact that the witnesses of history are passing away, the role of camp relics, both artifacts and archives, as the carriers of historical memory is increasing. The relics not only visualize the past but also constitute the source of knowledge about it. What is more, the atmosphere they create and the fact that they are authentic and unique are conducive to “experiencing” history in a more interesting way. >>>
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To remember for the sake of the future. Young Poles and Germans in the Museum at Majdanek.
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Classes for international groups are an integral part of the Museum’s educational offer. Within the framework of student exchanges, many schools from Poland and Germany carry out projects devoted to the history of Nazism on the basis of the history of the former German concentration camp at Majdanek. The Maria Curie-Skłodowska V High School in Lublin and Gesamtschule in Schermbeck, North Rhine-Westphalia are the Museum’s active partners. >>>
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An encounter with history: children’s camp life stories
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Between September 29 and October 7, 2009 the students of Hugo Kołłątaj V High School in Lublin took part in the project entitled „An encounter with history: children’s camp life stories”, which has already been carried out several times. During the workshops carried out in the Museum at Majdanek the students discovered the lives of Polish, Belarusian and Jewish children: Henio Żytomirski, Halina Birenbaum, Piotr Kiriszczenko and Janina Buczek. >>>
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A new publication: Tomasz Kranz, Historical Education in Memorial Sites. Key Issues Outline
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How should we create a new quality of remembrance culture and historical narration about the tragic events of World War II? How should we educate the young generation in a modern way and benefit from the educational and didactic potential of the knowledge about Nazi crimes?
Tomasz Kranz, the author of “Historical Education in Memorial Sites. Key Issues Outline” (second edition, revised) is trying to answer those questions, which are crucial to the future of commemoration and remembrance of war. The book innovatively combines analytical reflection and theoretical knowledge with experience and practical tips. >>>
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the visit of Ambassador of Izrael in Poland in State Museum at Majdanek
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On October 8, 2009 the State Museum at Majdanek was visited by the Ambassador of Israel in Poland, Zvi Rav-Ner and his wife. >>> |
The temporary exhibition Majdanek in Edward Hartwig’s photographs in Italy
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On 24-28 September 2009 the State Museum at Majdanek presented an exhibition entitled “Majdanek in Edward Hartwig’s photographs” in the town hall in Pescantine, Italy. The event was also an occasion to bring back the history of the former concentration camp in Lublin and meet secondary school representatives in order to establish educational cooperation. >>>
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Victims of the Nazi Regime-Database of Polish citizens repressed under the German Occupation
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This is the next time that the State Museum at Majdanek has entered the program “Victims of the Nazi Regime-Database of Polish citizens repressed under the German Occupation”,which was initiated by the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) and the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in 2006. >>>
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The visit of diplomats from 46 countries in State Museum at Majdanek
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On September 26, 2009 the State Museum at Majdanek was visited by the group of diplomats from 46 countries. The guests, in majority in the rank of ambassadors, with accompanying persons, came to Majdanek Museum during their tour around Lubelszczyzna region, organized by the local state and self-government authorities with the help of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. >>>
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The 6th Lublin Science Festival in the State Museum at Majdanek
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It is the fourth time that the State Museum at Majdanek has taken part in the Lublin Science Festival, which is a prestigious popular science event that has been organized in Lublin since 2004. The main organizer of this year’s edition is the Lublin University of Technology and this year’s banner is “Science is the technology of life”. >>>
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Pedagogy of remembrance – the presentation of educational offer of the State Museum at Majdanek
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The „Majdanek Days” celebrations were accompanied by a presentation of the Museum’s new educational offer. The teachers of lower and upper secondary schools from Lublin and the area around it took part in the meeting.>>>
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Furrow – an author’s show by Leszek Mądzik performed by Scena Plastyczna KUL
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The State Museum at Majdanek cordially invites you to visit temporary outdoor exhibition entitled “Should man grow silent, the very stones will scream. The monument in honour of the victims of Majdanek”. The exhibition is availeable to all interested at the main Lublin square, Plac Litewski until October 1. Afterwards the wxhibition will be presented in front of the Visitor Service Centre in the State Museum at Majdanek until November 2. >>> |
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The State Museum at Majdanek cordially invites you to visit the temporary exhibition entitled „The documents of crime – memory deposits. The conservation-restoration of artifacts and documents from the concentration camp at Majdanek”. The exhibition is presented in the hall of the Visitor Service Centre until 15th April 2010 >>> |
„Majdanek Days” 16 - 20 September 2009
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On 16-20 September „Majdanek Days” celebrations devoted to the victims of the concentration camp at Majdanek were held. They have been organized since 1945 by the State Museum at Majdanek and the Society for the Protection of Majdanek. >>>
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Gloria Artis medal for the State Museum at Majdanek
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On September 2, 2009 the State Museum at Majdanek was honoured with the “Gloria Artis” medal for cultural merits. >>>
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70th anniversary of the outbreak of the World War II
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On 1st September 2009, for the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the World War II, an addition to the local newspaper Gazeta w Lublinie, entitled “The 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the World War II. Lublin during occupation” will be published. >>> |
The publications about the education at memorials
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The Education Department of the State Museum at Majdanek has prepared a bibliography of the publications for teachers and for all who are interested in education at memorials. >>>
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A new section on the website: an on-line library catalogue
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The State Museum at Majdanek has presented a new section: an on-line library catalogue on the museum website. It should make it easier to use the extensive collection of museum library by those who are interested in history of the World War II. >>>
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On July 27-31 the Education Department of the State Museum at Majdanek in cooperation with the International Youth Meeting Centre in Oświęcim and Action Reconciliation Service for Peace has organized a historical and educational seminar for volunteers from Germany who are soon going to start working in museum-memorial sites and other institutions that deal with commemorating the World War II victims as well as social welfare centres in Europe and the USA. >>>
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The 65th anniversary of liquidation of the concentration camp at Majdanek
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On July 23, 2009 the State Museum at Majdanek held the ceremony to celebrate the 65 anniversary of liquidating the concentration camp at Majdanek. The ceremony was particularly dedicated to the memory of the Lublin region citizens who died in the camp. >>> |
Extermination and memory. From the history of the German occupation in the Lublin region.
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Georg Büchner Lower Secondary School in Darmstadt has the tradition of organizing study journeys to the memorial museums in Poland. They are part of extracurricular historical and civic education, the purpose of which is reflecting on the past in the context of Nazi crimes, commemorating the victims of National Socialism and shaping civic attitudes in a spirit of democratic values. >>> |
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Through the agency of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, the State Museum at Majdanek has made an appeal to the former camp prisoners living in the USA and their families for financial support. The means which the museum is going to obtain this way are going to be allocated for furnishing the conservation laboratory and adapting two camp barracks for exhibition halls: one of the barracks is a former shoemaker’s workshop, where victims’ shoes were sorted, and the other one is a women’s bathhouse, were Jewish women and children were selected for gas chambers. >>>
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Inventory works in the area of the former camp
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Between April 21and May 19, 2009 the Department of Collections took the inventory of the sanitary appliances, the remnants of the barracks in Fields I, II, IV and V, drains and hydrants. A volunteer from Austria, Johannes Köppl helped with the work. >>>
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The museum lesson “The camp reality according to Jadwiga Ankiewicz’s diary”
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On June 2, 2009 the second grade students of lower secondary school in Pliszczyn visited the museum at Majdanek within the framework of the project „Memory and Respect”, which was carried out in the school. The students participated in the museum lesson whose subject was “The camp reality according to Jadwiga Ankiewicz’s diary." >>>
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Polish philology students at Academy of Humanities and Economics in Łódź
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Polish philology students at Academy of Humanities and Economics in Łódź took part in a historical workshop “The memory of the survivors – the memory of the perpetrators”, which was organized on June 6 by the Education Department of the State Museum at Majdanek. >>> |
Remembering Genocide. Polish and Dutch historical workshop in the Museum at Majdanek.
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Between 23 and 30 May, 2009 Lublin hosted a Polish and Dutch educational project devoted to the problem of genocide. It was prepared and carried out by Homo Faber Association in cooperation with Stanisław Staszic High School in Lublin, Zeldenrust College in Terneuzen, Holland, and Memory Well Association from Lublin. >>> |
The visit of Ambassador of Belgium in Poland in State Museum at Majdanek
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On May 26, 2009 the State Museum at Majdanek was visited by the Ambassador of Belgium, Jan Luykx and his wife. >>>
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In search of traces of the past – Educational project for your school
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The Education Department of the State Museum at Majdanek is the organizer of an educational project entitled “Majdanek. Discovering the history of the camp”, which is a historical workshop combined with physical work in the museum-memorial site. Upper secondary students are invited to take part in the project. >>>
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The fate of underage Majdanek prisoners
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On 14 May, 2009 the third form lower secondary students of John Paul II School Complex No 4 in Krasnystaw participated in a museum lesson devoted to the lives of children in Majdanek. The classes dealt with such issues as: the reasons why the children were brought to the camp, living conditions and profiles of individual children representing the groups of underage Jewish, Polish and Belarusian prisoners. The youngest members of society became just the same victims of the III Reich’s policy as adults. >>>
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67 years ago in Józefów, Zamość region,Reserve Police Battalion 101started its criminal activity. It was sent to the Lublin district within the framework of the operation called „Sonderaktion Polen”. Between July 1942 and November 1943, when the plan of exterminating Jewish population was being carried out, the battalion took part in executing 38 thousand Jews and deporting 45 thousand Jews to the Treblinka death camp in such places like Międzyrzec Podlaski, Kock, Parczew, Końskowola, Radzyń, Łuków i Lublin. The history of the battalion and the crimes they committed have been described by an American Holocaust historian Christopher R.Brownig in his book Ordinary Men. Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland.>>> |
In the face of the past. Young Poles and Germans in the Museum at Majdanek
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Between March 21 and 23, 2009 the Museum at Majdanek hosted a Polish–German educational project devoted to the history of German occupation in the Lublin region. The students who participated in the project came from Friedrich von Bodelschwingh Bethel School in Bielefeld and Maria Curie-Sklodowska High V School in Lublin. >>>
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The visit of Ambassador of Canada in Poland in State Museum at Majdanek
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On May 14, 2009 the State Museum at Majdanek was visited by the Ambassador of Canada, David Preston and his wife. >>>
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The Education Department of the State Museum at Majdanek has organized a specialist training in order to teach students of Lublin universities how to show schoolchildren around the historical exhibition and the area of the former concentration camp at Majdanek. >>>
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The Holocaust Memorial Day, celebrated on April 19 in Poland, is dedicated to the remembrance of the Jews who were murdered during World War Two. In the long history of genocide, the extermination of Jews is considered to have been an unprecedented phenomenon. The Lublin region became one of the main areas were the Nazis killed hundreds of thousands of Jewish children, women and men. Jews perished as a result of hunger, disastrous living and hygienic conditions, hard work, executions and extermination in death camps. Thousands of victims had been brought to so called transit ghettos before they were murdered in the gas chambers of Bełżec, Sobibor and Majdanek. >>>
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The 65th anniversary of the death of Blessed Emilian Kovch, a prisoner of Majdanek
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On March 25, 2009 the State Museum at Majdanek held the ceremony to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the death of Blessed Emilian Kovch, a prisoner of the concentration camp at Majdanek.
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Historical workshop „Ordinary People or Enthusiastic Holocaust Executors?”
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During a historical workshop the students of School Complex No 5 in Lublin together with their teacher Małgorzata Sztajdel attempted to find out what pushes people into committing the cruelest crimes. >>> |
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On March 11, 2009 students from Germany, Italy and Poland took part in a historical workshop in the State Museum at Majdanek. Their visit to the Museum was a part of an international Comenius project entitled „Shoah”, which was carried out by schools from Rottweil (Germany), Thiene (Italy), Radzionków (Poland) and School Complex No 10 in Lublin (the host of the visit). >>>
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A new section on the Museum website: On-line publications
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The website of the State Museum at Majdanek has opened a new section of on-line publications. It will contain articles in PDF format and source studies devoted to the issues of German occupation in the Lubelskie region, with special attention paid to the history of the concentration camp at Majdanek and the death camp in Bełżec. The series starts with an extremely valuable source, namely radiograms concerning the number of prisoners at Majdanek. They were found in one of the British archives a couple of years ago. Enjoy your reading. >>>
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Educational programme: Traces of Holocaust in Occupied Poland
A group of young people from Österreichische Gewerkschatsjugend organization from Vienna arrived in Poland within the framework of social and educational education. They made a study journey to the places connected with the extermination of European Jews. The part of the programme, which was carried out in the Lublin Province between January, 31 and February, 2 concerned one of the issues that was essential for the history of Holocaust: the construction and functioning of “Aktion Reinhardt” camps (Treblinka, Bełżec and Sobibór). >>>
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The session of the Museum Council was held on February 23, 2009 in the conference hall of the State Museum at Majdanek. The main subject of the session was the evaluation of the Museum’s activity in the year 2008 as well as preparing the work plan for the current year. >>>
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Students from North Rhine-Westphalia in Lublin
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Professional practice for students from Germany is one of active forms of historical education organized by the Museum at Majdanek. Its subject matter covers different aspects of Nazi ideology, the history of concentration camps, the after effects of the Second World War and forms of commemorating the victims of the Third Reich. >>>
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Extracurricular educational classes entitled „It’s memory, not vengeance that our shadows ask for…”
The cooperation between the State Museum at Majdanek, Maria Curie-Skłodowska High School in Lublin and Gesamtschule in Schermbeck brought another fruitful common venture. Between January, 26 and 28, Polish and German students took part in a historical workshop devoted to the history of the concentration camp at Majdanek. The programme of the workshop included the classes concerning the German occupation of Lublin, workshop classes in the museum and a meeting with Ms Ewa Kozłowska, a former prisoner of the concentration camps in Majdanek and Ravensbrück. >>>
Ceremonies and conference for the commemoration of 65th anniversary of Erntefest
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A ceremony was held on 3 November to celebrate the 65th anniversary of Action „Erntefest”. The ceremony was devoted to 42 thousand victims of mass executions, who were the prisoners of the concentration camp at Majdanek and forced labour camps in Lublin, Trawniki and Poniatowa. The executions took place on 3 and 4 November 1943. >>>
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Symposium Facing Oscar Hansen’s Open Form - Adam Spychała exhibition
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Lublin Fine Arts Association (Lubelskie Towarzystwo Zachęty Sztuk Pięknych) and Kont Gallery kindly invite you to Adam Spychała’s exhibition entitled Clues to Our Past and Future Existence, which is held at the State Museum at Majdanek.Spychała is a student of Lublin Technical University and his project assumes interference with the existing space of the former concentration camp on the basis of Oscar Hansen’s Open Form. Hansen’s 1958 design of the Auschwitz monument was the starting point for the young architect. The exhibition consists of three parts, which include photographs, a multimedia projection and architectural design on boards.>>> |
New maps for the museum exhibition
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The museum has recently been cooperating with the Cartography Department of Maria Curie-Sklodowska University to produce the maps entitled: “The Lublin Region under the German Occupation. Camps – Prisons – Ghettos in 1939 – 1944” and „Lublin during the German Occupation in 1939 – 1944”. The works have been finishedand from the new season of 2009 the maps will be presented at the permanent exhibition in barracks 45.>>>
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Commemoration of Jewish children from the Lublin orphanage, who were murdered in March of 1942
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On 23 September, 2008 a ceremony commemorating the execution of Jewish children from the Lublin orphanage was held. It was prepared by the Israeli Beth Shemesh secondary school, situated near Jerusalem and the XVIII Secondary School in Lublin. The ceremony was preceded by a meeting of the Isreali and Polish students, during which they told each other about their lives and taught each other their traditional songs and dances. >>>
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Educational project - An encounter with history: Children’s fate at the camp
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Between 1 and 10 October an educational project entitled „An Encounter with History: Children’s Fate at the Camp” took place at the State Museum at Majdanek. The first grade students of Hugo Kołłątaj High School in Lublin took part in it. The classes in a historical place like the former concentration camp are a form of extracurricular education, which is a great chance to meet the past and reflect on the tragedy of the Second World War and its commemoration. >>> |
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