Lublin: Majdanek concentration camp

A nazi concentration and extermination camp which had a capacity of 50 000 people at its peak, claiming 78 000 lives in only three years.

Picture 1: The Majdanek pylon, loosely spelling a Yiddish sign for Lublin. Built to be suggestive of mangled bodies.
Picture 2: Bathhouse used for "disinfecting" new inmates.
Picture 3: Used cans of zyklon B.
Picture 4: One of 8 gas chambers.
Picture 5: exerpt from the testimony of an imprisoned Polish doctor.
Picture 6: Surviving confiscated shoes, made more confronting by the fact that most shoes were sent to Germany or destroyed for raw materials.
Picture 7: Barbed wire fences separating fields.
Picture 8: Majdanek memorial, reminiscent of a traditional urn. Contains a mound of ashes of the cremated victims.
Picture 9: The crematorium
Video: A multimedia art piece created to commemorate the victims of Majdanek.Read more