An appeal for financial help

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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. >>>


         The State Museum at Majdanek, together with its branch in the former death camp in Bełżec, occupies the area of 100 hectares. Conservators take care of more than 70 wooden buildings, nearly 150 ruined sanitary appliances which are the remains of the barracks, many kilometers of pavements and hardened roads and 3 gigantic monuments. Moreover, the museum has a collection of about 280 thousand shoes which belonged mainly to the Holocaust victims, 17 thousand objects of different kind coming from the camp and 25 thousand pages of documents from the camp office.

 
         According to the introductory estimates, the conservation of the wooden barracks is going to cost 15 million zlotys (i.e. 4.7 dollars). We also need to extend camp infrastructure, namely: modernize the historical exhibition warehouses and build a new exhibition pavilion as well as educational facilities, which is going to cost nearly 30 million zlotys (9,4 dollars).