Majdanek

Majdanek is a Death camp and work Nazi being in the Polish city of Lublin (at the time in close suburbs).

Description

The administrative name was “Konzentrationslager Lublin” ( concentration camp of Lublin ), but its localization - a place today with 4km in the south-east of the center town named Majdan Tatarski , or Majdan tatar ( Majdanek = small Majdan ) - gave him its current name.

Contrary to many Nazi camps, Majdanek was not inserted in a forest moved away, hidden with the sight by natural barriers nor not surrounded by a buffer zone known as of safety . It was established in October 1941 according to the orders of Heinrich Himmler, following its visit with Lublin in July of the same year. In February 1943, it was transformed into concentration camp.

The camp provided a labor of slaves for the factory of Munition S and the factory of Arme S Steyr-Daimler-Puch.

With most extremely of its activity, it accommodated 50.000 prisoners. In the first months of 1942 of the plans were established to increase and quintuple its capacity. Between April 1942 and July 1944, gas chambers and the crematory ones were set up and used massively, thus taking part in the Holocauste.

The camp was closed on July 17th 1944 and the prisoners " évacués" (mainly towards Auschwitz). Many documents were then destroyed and of the burnt buildings. But at the time of the arrival of the Red Army (on July 23rd, 1944), the gas chamber as of many hutments were preserved.

According to the registers, approximately 300.000 people passed by this camp - including 40% of Jews and Pole 35%. 78.000 lost the life there (cf Tomasz Kranz, Zur Erfassung der Häftlingssterblichkeit im Konzentrationslager Lublin, Lublin 2007).

Today, the camp is visited freely.

List commanders of the camp

  1. Karl Otto Koch (September 1941 at July 1942)
  2. max Koegel (August 1942 at October 1942)
  3. Hermann Florsted (October 1942 at September 1943)
  4. Martin Weiss (September 1943 at May 1944)
  5. Arthur Liebehenschel (May 1944 at July 22nd 1944)

Photographs of the camp

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