Scenes from a Visit to the Majdanek Concentration Camp on 24 September 2015 during a motorhome tour of Eastern Poland
Although primarily a labour camp, approximately 870,000 people were murdered at the Majdanek Concentration Camp in the city of Lublin between October 1941 and July 1944. In addition to being a sorting centre for personal effects taken from victims of the Extermination camps of Treblinka, Sobibor and Belzec, the camp provided labour for the Stery-Daimler-Puch weapons and munitions factory.
Killings took place through overwork, starvation, disease, brutality, shootings and, after September 1942, by gassing with Zyklon B (as at Auschwitz) and the exhaust fumes from the diesel engine of a captured Russian tank.
The advance of Russian troops in July 1944 meant that the camp was captured almost intact. Today, lying on the edge of the large city of Lublin, it acts as a major education centre with a first class visitor centre.
Killings took place through overwork, starvation, disease, brutality, shootings and, after September 1942, by gassing with Zyklon B (as at Auschwitz) and the exhaust fumes from the diesel engine of a captured Russian tank.
The advance of Russian troops in July 1944 meant that the camp was captured almost intact. Today, lying on the edge of the large city of Lublin, it acts as a major education centre with a first class visitor centre.