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Bookmark or Share- The forgotten concentration camp left off the ‘Holocaust tourism’ circuitHolocaust. On July 23 1944, Soviet Army troops discovered the huge Nazi concentration camp of Majdanek just outside the Polish city of Lublin, virtually intact. Along with a few hundred ill and...
- Majdanek concentration camp - Wikipedia150,000. Killed. Estimated 78,000. Liberated by. Soviet Union, July 22, 1944. Majdanek (or Lublin) was a Nazi concentration and extermination camp built and operated by the SS on the outskirts of the city of Lublin during the German occupation of Poland in World War II.
- Majdanek | Nazi Concentration Camp in Poland, WWII | BritannicaMajdanek, Nazi German concentration camp and extermination camp on the southeastern outskirts of the city of Lublin, Poland. In October 1941 it received its first prisoners, mainly Soviet prisoners of war, virtually all of whom died of hunger and exposure. Within a year, however, it was converted.
- Majdanek: History & Overview - Jewish Virtual LibraryMajdanek Concentration Camp: History & Overview. The Majdanek concentration camp is situated in a major urban area, four kilometers from the city center of Lublin, and can be easily reached by trolley car. The location of the Majdanek camp is in an area of rolling terrain and can be seen from all sides; it could not be more public or accessible.
- The Liberation of Majdanek - The National WWII MuseumCourtesy of Deutsche Fotothek. On the night of July 22-23, 1944, soldiers of the Red Army came upon Majdanek, the first of the Nazi camps to be liberated. They freed just under 500 prisoners and occupied the nearby city of Lublin on July 24. What Soviet and Polish researchers uncovered and documented behind the camp’s electrified barbed wire ...
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