Lublin & Majdanek Concentration Camp

Learn more about tragic history of Jews and the Holocaust. Next discover located nearby Lublin – city with beautiful and rich history, where Western and Eastern Worlds meet. “Little Cracow”, “Vienna of the North”, “little Jerusalem”, find out yourself which nick name suits the best this pearl of the east Poland.

Majdanek Nazi German Concentration and Extermination Camp is located just outside the city. In Nazi plans it was supposed to be bigger than infamous Auschwitz and become slave labour source for creating new empire on the east. Exceedingly strict conditions of prisoners’ life are symbolized right at the camp entrance by impressive monument in a place of the former front gate. A walk among remains of camp barracks with exhibitions inside, well-preserved crematory building or gas chamber and gigantic Mausoleum with ashes of Majdanek victims – all of these fills visitors with sorrow and reflection.