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09.04.1944|Dutch🇳🇱 resistance member Cornelis van Zijtveld died in the #Majdanek concentration camp. He was transferred to KL Lublin from KL Neuengamme on 26.01.1944. The Germans registered him in the camp files as prisoner no. 19026. 📷from Nationaal Monument Oranjehotel page.
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02.04.1944|An evacuation transport of 1150 prisoners of #Majdanek was sent to KL Natzweiler in Alsace. Among the deportees there was Zacheusz Pawlak, a Polish resistance member from Radom.
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02.04.1944|Daniel Trocmé, French chemistry and physics teacher, head of a boarding school, one of the Righteous Among the Nations, died at the #Majdanek concentration camp. He was deported on 6 February. Together with his family and neighbours in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon they saved up to 5,000 Jews.
Anton Neumann
An diesem Tag im Jahr 1928 wurde ein tschechisch-jüdischer Junge geboren. Am 7. Mai 1942 wurde er mit seinem Vater nach #Theresienstadt und am 9. Mai 1942 nach #Sobibor deportiert. Er starb am 10. Oktober 1942 in #Majdanek. Sein Vater starb in Sobibor.
#NieWieder #NiemalsVergessen
Black and white photograph of four people gathered outdoors in a yard. Three are standing, and observing a person recovering a metal tank from the grounds. The setting appears serious and focused.
01.04.1971|Museum historians and Wanda Szupenko, who during WWII ran the Home Army intelligence cell in the Lublin district, recovered the hidden OPUS archives. The files included intelligence reports secretly sent from #Majdanek.
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31.03.1943|Polish priest Edward Dolecki was arrested at his parish in Hrubieszów and sent to #Majdanek. He was placed at field III and assigned to the construction works kommando. Father Dolecki survived. Learn more about his fate on our website: tinyurl.com/adu5zdnr
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27.03.1943|Narcyz Witczak-Witaczyński perished at #Majdanek concentration camp. He was a Soldier of the Polish Army, resistance member in the Home Army structures, renowned military photographer, recipient of the Virtuti Militari order – Poland’s highest military decoration for heroism and courage.
26.03.1943|Transport of 804 prisoners (188 men, 133 women) sent from the Gestapo Pawiak prison in Warsaw arrived at #Majdanek. It included 321 political prisoners and 483 people caught in street roundups. Among those deportees there was Jerzy Kwiatkowski.
A documentary a day in March. Name the film and director. Provide an image.
Film: Night and Fog (1956)
Director: Alain Resnais
#TheHolocaust #DocumentaryChallenge #Auschwitz #Filmsky #MovieSky #Majdanek #DocumentaryFilm #MovieChallenge #FilmChallenge #DocuSky
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Emilian Kowcz was a Ukrainian priest. The German Gestapo arrested him for aiding Jews during the #Holocaust. He was deported to #Majdanek in August 1943. 82 years ago he perished in the camp infirmary. Fr. Emilian always proclaimed peaceful coexistence of all nations and faiths.
Nigdy Więcej Wojny: Touring Majdanek German Death Camp Near Lublin⚔️💥😢
#NigdyWięcejWojny #nevermorewar #peace #nomorewar #majdanek #germandeathcamps #sadness
www.northernirishmaninpoland.com/nigdy-wiecej...
23.03.1942|Camp commandant Karl Otto Koch authorised the General Construction Plan. Upon its completion #Majdanek would cover over 500 hectares and have the capacity of keeping 150,000 prisoners simultaneously. As visible in the top right corner it was still a POW camp at that time.
23.03.1944|Désiré Georges perished in the #Majdanek concentration camp. He was a Belgian resistance member, who was arrested by the Germans on 13.10.1942. Désiré was transferred to Lublin from KL Sachsenhausen in March 1944.
19.03.1944|Slovenian man Franz Urankar, born on 09.09.1894, perished at the #Majdanek concentration camp. He died shortly upon his arrival at the camp in March 1944, when he was transferred to KL Lublin from Neuengamme and registered as inmate no. 23544.
On the night of 16-17.03.1944📷Paweł Dąbek and several other Polish men imprisoned at #Majdanek made a daring escape using white sheets to become invisible on the snow, crawling to the barbed wire fences, cutting them with stolen tools, and leaving the camp unnoticed.
11.03.1943|Stanisław Sumiński PhD, Polish naturalist, biologist, teacher & lecturer, perished at #Majdanek. He prepared hundreds of programmes about the world of nature broadcast in the Polish radio. Together with prof. Szymon Tenenbaum they released “Warsaw’s Zoological Guide”.
06.03.1940|Polish woman Wiktoria Foltarz was arrested by the Germans in Toruń. In mid-April she was deported to #Ravensbrück. Later she was transferred to #Majdanek and registered as prisoner no. 3135. During the camp evacuation she was sent to Ravensbrück again in April 1944. She survived.
04.03.1944|Jean Maunier, a French journalist from Paris perished at the #Majdanek concentration camp in Lublin. He was transferred from KL Neuengamme and registered as prisoner no. 7093.
04.03.1944|Thanks to the appeal of the Polish Red Cross, Stanisław Nowakowski was released from #Majdanek. He was deported to KL Lublin on 5 December 1943. The release note was issued while Stanisław was lying ill in the camp infirmary📷 at field V. The Red Cross saved his life.
03.03.1881|Kazimierz Kryński was born. He was a doctor of medicine, Polish Army and Home Army soldier. The Soviet NKVD arrested him on 13.08.1944 and imprisoned him on #Majdanek grounds. Major Kryński was deported to the Ryazan Gulag on 23 August. Kazimierz survived and returned to Poland in 1947.
27.02.1944|Transport of 600 male prisoners registered as “civilian labourers” was sent from #Majdanek to KL Flossenbürg. Most of them were Belarusians, Ukrainians, and Russians. The train arrived at its destination on 3 March 1944. 📷First page of the transport list.
26.02.1944|Transport of 227 Jewish prisoners transferred from #Auschwitz arrived at #Majdanek. They were the members of Sonderkommando working in Birkenau, and as eyewitnesses of the German crimes they were all shot near the camp crematorium shortly after their arrival in KL Lublin.
25.02.1944|A transport of around 60 female Red Army soldiers arrived at #Majdanek. They were transferred from a POW camp in Chełm, where they had been kept for two months. Learn more about the female prisoners from our #WomenofMajdanek #Varia magazine: bit.ly/3YBvs9X
24.02.1944|Jewish prisoners of #Majdanek transferred to Sonderkommando 1005, forced to burn victims' corpses and conceal German crime evidence, made an escape attempt while working in the Borek forest near Chełm. Most were caught and shot on the spot. Józef Reznik📷was among the few survivors.
23.02.1943|The Germans arrested Marcin Gryta as a resistance member. He was detained at the Gestapo prison in the Lublin castle. In April he was taken to #Majdanek and registered as no. 7803. He managed to escape from a death march to #Auschwitz in July 1944 and survived the war.
20.02.1943|Kazimierz Kolbuszewski, renowned Polish literary historian, professor at the Lwów and Wilno universities, perished at #Majdanek. The Germans arrested him for aiding Jews since Kazimierz was giving shelter to his Jewish student, and a Jewish woman who worked as his housekeeper.
From the partially preserved headcount dispatch we know that on 18.02.1943 there were at least 7742 male prisoners detained at #Majdanek. The recorded number includes nearly 5,000 Poles and over 2,600 Jews.
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.
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.
