Guided Holocaust tour in Lublin
Majdanek was one of the largest Nazi concentration camps, and the most primitive one. 150 000 persons from 30 countries and of 54 nationalities passed through it. About 80 000 died.
It was one of six killing centers (with Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bełżec, Sobibór, Treblinka and Chełmno) used by the Nazis to exterminate European Jews. And today it`s the only one with gas chambers preserved in their original condition. Unlike what happened in Auschwitz, the Nazis had no time to evacuate the camp or to burn it and destroy the evidence. It was liberated by the Red Army as early as in July 1944 and the Museum began operating in November 1944 as the world’s first institution dedicated to the Second World War and the commemoration of its victims.
Because it was captured whole, visitors to Majdanek see far more than they might see at Auschwitz itself. Personally, I find Majdanek more primitive, more actual and more real.
In Majdanek we will see more than 70 preserved buildings, including original gas chambers. In one barrack a collection of 70 000 shoes is presented. They belonged to Jewish victims of also Treblinka, Belzec and Sobibor camps.
