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Some Jewish prisoners of #Majdanek were were forced to burn victims' corpses outside the camp as part of the Sonderkommando 1005 operation. On 24.02.1944 they made an escape attempt while working in the Borek forest near Chełm. Most were caught and killed. Józef Reznik📷was among the few survivors.

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23.02.1935|David (Deddie) Zak was born. He lived with his parents, Judith and Simon, at Uiterwaardenstraat 71 in Amsterdam. The Zaks were deported to the German Nazi extermination camp SS-Sonderkommando #Sobibor and murdered in the gas chambers on 11.06.1943. Deddie was just 8 years old. #Holocaust

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22.02.1944|Helena Górska was brought to #Majdanek from the Lublin castle prison and murdered straight away in a mass execution. She had two sons: Leszek, who also perished in the camp in April 1944, and Adolf, who survived Majdanek. Helena’s grandson still works at the Memorial to this very day.🕯️

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22.02.1909|Alexander Pechersky was born in Kremenchuk (Ukraine). As a captured Red Army lieutenant of Jewish origin, he was deported to the German Nazi death camp SS-Sonderkommando #Sobibor in September 1943. Together with Lejba Felhendler he planned and led the prisoner uprising on 14.10.1943.

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21 February 1922 | A Pole Wiktor Tołkin was born in Tołkacze. A sculptor & an architect. In #Auschwitz from 18 November 1942. No. 75886 Released from the camp in Feb 1944. After the war, he designed monuments at Majdanek and Stutthof Museums. Tołkin passed away in May 2013.

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20.02.1943|Kazimierz Kolbuszewski renowned literary historian, professor at the Lwów and Wilno universities, perished at #Majdanek. He was arrested by the Gestapo for aiding Jews. Prof. Kolbuszewski was giving shelter to his Jewish student. He also hired a Jewish woman with fake ID as a housekeeper.

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We mourn the passing of the Holocaust survivor Marian Turski. We shall never forget his wise words. We will always remember him as a friend of the museum. We will forever be grateful for his engagement, achievements, and for his support of creating the Sobibór memorial. May his memory be a blessing.

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18.02.1943|Jerzy Kwiatkowski was arrested by the German Gestapo agents in Warsaw. Written in the 1940s, his detailed account, “485 Days at Majdanek” is among the most important testimonies regarding the German Nazi concentration camps in Lublin. Find it in our bookstore: tinyurl.com/3ufveatj

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The construction plan of #Majdanek from 18.02.1942 was considerably modified and reduced over time, but its comparison with the 1944 aerial photograph of the camp grounds allows to identify the part with the six prisoner fields that was actually fulfilled.

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17.02.1915|Maurycy Feuerstein was born. The outbreak of WWII interrupted his studies at the Higher School of Economics in Kraków. He worked in a carpenter’s workshop at the Kołomyja ghetto. In September 1942 he was deported to SS-Sonderkommando #Belzec & murdered in the gas chambers. #Holocaust

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Anton Thumann is visible in a few 1944 photographs of the Karl Höcker album, when he was in #Auschwitz for a brief period of time before being dispatched to KL Neuengamme. Here he is pictured with some of the most important perpetrators: Josef Mengele, Rudolf Höss, and Josef Kramer.

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17.02.1943|Anton Thumann became the prisoner camp commander (Schutzhaftlagerführer) at #Majdanek, taking one of the most important positions in the garrison hierarchy. In the survivors’ accounts he was described as one of the most merciless, brutal, and cruel SS-man in the camp.

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16.02.1943|German Nazi #Majdanek concentration camp was renamed from Kriegsgefangenenlager der Waffen-SS Lublin to Konzentrationslager (KL) Lublin. Though from 10.1941 it formally operated as a POW camp, prisoners of various backgrounds were kept there from the very beginning of its functioning.

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15.02.1907|#Holocaust survivor Salomon (Shlomo) Podchlebnik was born in Koło. In April 1943 he was taken to the #Sobibór death camp from the transit ghetto in Izbica. He escaped while working in Waldkommando (woodcutting group) on 27 July 1943. He settled in the USA after WWII.

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14.02.1943|Transport of Jews deported from the Hrubieszów ghetto (Lublin District) arrived at #Majdanek. Among them there were: Abraham Bulls (prisoner no. 10876), Jankel Blauder (no. 11011), Abraham Dichter (no. 10925).

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13.02.1943|Danuta Brzosko began the activity of “Radio Majdanek” as its first speaker. “Tomorrow will be better” – those words ending every ‘broadcast’ gave hope for survival. Learn about this unique initiative of the Polish women imprisoned at #Majdanek: bit.ly/3x6xVgo

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12.02.1878|Rosa Willinger was born in Flerzheim, Germany. She ran a clothes shop in Düsseldorf. In 1932 Rosa emigrated to Amsterdam to flee the Nazi persecutions. On 29 June 1943 she was deported to SS-Sonderkommando #Sobibor. On July 2 she was murdered in the gas chambers. #Holocaust

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12.02.1895|Ida Steiner (née Leuchter) was born in Kraków. She ran a furrier’s workshop with her husband Israel. In late October 1942 she was deported to SS-Sonderkommando #Belzec and murdered in the gas chambers along with her daughters: Teofila & Eugenia. #Holocaust

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12.02.1943 Heinrich Himmler inspected SS-Sonderkommando #Sobibor. He was accompanied by Odilo Globocnik, Christian Wirth, Friedrich W. Krüger, and Josef Oberhauser. Himmler wanted to personally verify the organisation of the mass murder procedure in the Sobibór extermination camp.

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11.02.1906|Karolina Gemeiner (née Zimmerspitz) was born. During World War II she worked on repairing the German army uniforms in a sewing workshop established in the Kraków ghetto. On 28.10.1942 Karolina was deported to SS-Sonderkommando #Belzec and murdered in the gas chambers. #Holocaust

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07.02.1943|Józef Szczygieł was deported to #Majdanek from the Janowska concentration camp in Lviv. He was registered as prisoner no. 4872 and detained at field III, later field II. He worked in the camp construction kommando. In July 1943 Józef was transferred to KL Flossenbürg. He survived.

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05.02.1944|Transport of ca. 800 female prisoners transferred from #Ravensbrück arrived at #Majdanek. They included ca. 350 German, 20 French, 70 Czech, 10 Belgian as well as some Croatian, Dutch, Lithuanian, Norwegian and Luxembourgian women. Among them Male Porada – she died in the camp on 4 March.

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04.02.1942|Kriminalsekretär Otto Kloppmann arrived at #Majdanek. He took command of the in-camp Gestapo cell known as political department (Politische Abteilung). Kloppmann’s unit was responsible for keeping prisoner records, investigations, brutally held interrogations, and executions of prisoners.

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03.02.1944| Julian Baranowicz, a Polish organist from the Bargłów Kościelny parish, died at #Majdanek. The Germans arrested him as a resistance member. Julian was deported to KL Lublin in August 1943 from the Gestapo prison in Białystok. He was registered as a political prisoner no. 4181.

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31.01.1943|Jan Zakrzewski was deported to #Majdanek from the Łącki prison in Lviv. Registered as political prisoner no. 1619 he worked in the burial and construction kommandos, and later in the SS canteen. Jan escaped from the last evacuation transport in Lublin on 23 July 1944 and survived the war.

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30.01.1944|Jadwiga Ankiewicz was shot by the German soldiers in one of the streets of Warsaw. She was released from #Majdanek in May 1943 and despite her traumatising experiences she got engaged in the resistance as a Grey Ranks liaison. She survived the camp, but not the war. Jadwiga was just 17.

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30.01.1944|Norwegian Fritjof Marilius Pedersen died at the #Majdanek concentration camp. He was a sailor born in Løksletten. He was first imprisoned in #Dachau as inmate no. 59 221. On 7 January 1944 Fritjof was transferred to KL Lublin and registered as prisoner no. 3361.

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Rudolf Vrba was first deported from Slovakia to #Majdanek and then transferred to KL #Auschwitz. He made a brilliant escape and co-wrote one of the first vital #Holocaust accounts. Join, learn, remember.

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On the Holocaust Memorial Day we gathered with survivors and the youth - our future - to pay homage to the 6,000,000 Jews murdered during the Shoah. They were victims of hatred, racism, and indifference. We must never forget their fates. Never be deaf to the voices of survivors. #HMD #WeRemember

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26.01.1944|French prisoner Pierre Burggraeve was transferred to #Majdanek from KL Buchenwald. He was registered as a blue triangle (labour evasion) prisoner no. 9189 even though he officially worked for the Auto Union company. In July he was evacuated to KL Mauthausen. He did not survive the war.

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23.01.1898| Franciszka Sandauer née Nelken was born in Husiatyn. In 1918 she fought defending Lwów as one of the Eaglets. In 1922 she graduated from the University of Lwów with a degree in medicine. She worked as a devoted paediatrician as well as a specialist at a tuberculosis clinic.

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22.01.1943|Adolf Gokorsch died at #Majdanek. He was from Vienna, but he was registered in the camp files as a German criminal prisoner no. 108. He was transferred to KL Lublin from KL #Dachau.

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20.01.1943|Stanisław Rozwałka, a Polish farmer from the village of Siedliska in the Lublin District, died at #Majdanek. He was imprisoned at the camp in the autumn of 1942 because his children carelessly set a local grain warehouse on fire. He was registered in the camp files as prisoner no. 7573.

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20.01.1942|During the Wannsee conference 15 key figures of the Nazi Germany apparatus drew plans for the implementation of the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question”. Two months later operation “Reinhardt” began with the deportation of Jews from the Lublin ghetto to SS-Sonderkommando Belzec.

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18.01.1943|The first transport of over 1300 Polish political inmates sent from the Gestapo Pawiak prison arrived at #Majdanek. The group included members of the resistance, artists, scholars, priests & random civilians arrested during massive round-ups held in the streets of Warsaw in January 1943.

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17.01.1944| 74 inmates (mostly Poles) of the Gestapo Lublin castle prison were murdered in the camp crematorium at #Majdanek. They were sentenced to death by the German special court (Sondergericht) in Lublin. Such executions took place from late 1943 until Majdanek’s final days in July 1944.

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16.01.1944|French prisoner François Letterrier died at the infirmary of the #Majdanek concentration camp. He worked as a clerk in Paris and was sent to KL Lublin in late 1943 in one of the so-called transports of the sick. According to the camp files, François died of “blood circulation failure”.

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14.01.1943|150 Poles were transferred from the Gestapo prison at the Lublin castle to Majdanek. They were random civilians caught in big roundups held by the German police in train cars and stations during last days of December 1942. They were all registered as political prisoners in the camp files.

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13.01.1942|Zofia Filakowska was arrested as a resistance member in Warsaw. She was detained at the Gestapo Pawiak prison for over a year & deported to #Majdanek. She worked in the camp laundry, sewing workshop & the gardening kommando. In July 1943 she was transferred to Ravensbrück. Zofia survived.

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10.01.1916|Holocaust survivor Chaim Engel was born in Brudzew. In November 1942 he was deported to the SS-Sonderkommando #Sobibor death camp. Selected for labour he worked in the sorting and barbers’ workshop barracks. He escaped with his future wife Selma Wijnberg during the prisoner uprising.

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