The first prisoners came to Majdanek in 1941. In the next two and a half years many others followed. I did not realize the camp had so many different languages, and people from so many different places. It would have been difficult to communicate with fellow prisoners or understand orders from the guards. "inmates from Soviet prisoner of war camps and from other concentration camps, such as Sachsenhausen, Dachau, Buchenwald, Auschwitz, Neuengamme and Flossenberg. Other groups included Polish civilians who had been arrested in German raids or had been prisoners elsewhere, Jews from Poland, Germany, Czechoslovakia, the Netherlands, France, Hungary, Belgium, and Greece, non-Jews from Belorussia and the Ukraine, and Polish farmers." https://www.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%206622.pdfhttps://charterforcompassion.org/poland/remembrance/the-majdanek-memorialMajdanek Memorial |
https://warsawscenes.com/kazimierz-and-majdanek-tour-from-warsaw/https://www.britannica.com/place/MajdanekThis building is where the 7 gas chambers were. | https://www.britannica.com/place/Majdanek/media/1/358919/206937https://www.britannica.com/place/Majdanek/media/1/358919/206937Prisoners were forced to move the bodies from the gas chambers to the crematoria. |
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