Majdanek

Lublin castle massacre saw nearly 300 prisoners exterminated by Gestapo as Hitler’s forces prepared to flee the city

Estimates by historians suggest that over the course of WWII, between 40,000 and 80,000 people passed through the prison, considered one of the harshest in occupied Poland. Muzeum Narodowe w Lublinie /Muzeum Martyrologii "Pod Zegarem”/Facebook

Begun at around 9am on the 22nd of July, the executions carried out by a special death commando unit saw prisoners shot dead in their individual cells before being herded together and killed en-masse. Others were gunned down in the castle’s corridors and courtyard.

With an authenticity that’s lacking elsewhere, Lublin has remained true to its soul

Generously filled with dramatic archways, lavish churches, semi-secret corners and revamped tenements, it’s enough to just wander without aim and let the hours slip away.

Stunning new permanent exhibition makes its debut at Sobibór

It’s hoped that the state-of-the-art exhibition will raise awareness of this largely forgotten Nazi killing facility once Covid restrictions are lifted.

Unbelievable tale of children born and imprisoned in notorious Gestapo prison retold in harrowing new book

After months of meticulous research, author Sylwia Winnik gathered together eight accounts of children who spent part of their childhood in the German prison in occupied Warsaw for her new book Dzieci z Pawiaka (The Children from Pawiak). TFN’s Stuart Dowell met her to find out more.

Lublin marks anniversary of Nazi German death camp liquidation

Poland's eastern city of Lublin on Wednesday marked the 76th anniversary of the liquidation of Majdanek, a death camp where Nazi Germans killed around 80,000 people, including 60,000 Jews between 1941 and 1944.

‘We have forgiven but not forgotten’: one of Belarus’s last surviving Auschwitz victims recalls her time in the Nazi’s most infamous camp

After surviving German anti-partisan operations and Majdanek, Aleksandra Barysawa was sent to Auschwitz with her mother.

Secret messages smuggled out of Majdanek concentration camp handed over to state archives

Written by an AK soldier in the camp the messages provide priceless information on the workings of one of the Nazi’s most notorious facilities.

Destruction of Polish state enabled Holocaust - deputy minister

There would have been no Holocaust if there had been a Polish state at the time, Deputy Foreign Minister Jarosław Sellin told a meeting of the European Jewish Association in Kraków, southern Poland.

Polish PM marks 76th anniversary of mass execution of Jews at Majdanek

Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki on Monday commemorated Nazi Germany's World War II Aktion Erntefest, which saw the mass shooting of over 18,000 Jews at the Majdanek concentration camp in Lublin, eastern Poland.

Lublin commemorates mass execution of 18,000 Jews at Majdanek

The victims of Nazi Germany's World War II Aktion Erntefest, which saw the mass shooting of 18,000 Jews at the Majdanek concentration camp in Lublin (eastern Poland), was remembered by ceremonies in the city on the event's 76 anniversary on Sunday.

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