Majdanek+Resistance

Majdanek Resistance by Trey Blanding and Andrew Ebersole
 * constructed in 1941
 * bigger then [|Auschwitz-Birkenau] at 2.7 square kilometers
 * con[[image:http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/majdanek-ovens.jpg width="268" height="146" align="right" link="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/majdanek-ovens.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/holocaust.htm&h=450&w=616&sz=61&hl=en&start=3&um=1&tbnid=efJBdB4qfSNYjM:&tbnh=99&tbnw=136&prev=/images%3Fq%3DMajdanek%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN"]]centration, extermination, and hard labor camp
 * located roughly 2.5 miles away from Lublin
 * ten fields were surrounded by electric barbed wire and watchtowers
 * each field contained 20 barracks for prisoners and 2 barracks for necessary equipment
 * there was no security zone
 * the camp was not hidden by forests or anything so people passing by could see everything
 * prisoners were sent to work or be exterminated
 * those who could not work were sent directly to the gas chambers[[image:http://z.about.com/d/history1900s/1/0/K/D/majdanek15.jpg width="120" height="79" align="left" link="http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007300"]]


 * Gassing operations began at Majdanek in October 1942 and continued until the fall of 1943
 * One of few camps to use [|Zyklon B] along with carbon monoxide
 * Prisoners who didn't die by starvation, exhaustion, or illness were often hung, shot, or gassed
 * biggest mass murder in Majdanek occurred on Nov. 3, 1943( 16,000- 18,000 Jews were shot on this day)
 * estimated to contain 100,000- 120,000 people
 * these people included Jews,Gypsies, people with disabilities, Slavic people, and homosexuals
 * non-Jews were not victims of gassing operations
 * prisoners were also sent to the crematoria
 * some victims were dissected and used for medical experiments
 * camp was evacuated in July 1944
 * crematorium was all that could be destroyed so camp was well preserver
 * crematorium was all that could be destroyed so camp was well preserver

The Camp Majdanek by Desi K. and August S.
 * southeast border of Lublin, Poland
 * [|gas chambers] were built for mass executions
 * 360,000 is the estimated number of murders in Majdanek
 * concentration/extermination is it's function
 * established, Feb. 16, 1943
 * evacuated in July 1944
 * liberated on July 22, 1944 by soviets
 * during entire existence it was under construction
 * [|conditions] during bitter cold winter were lethal to everyone
 * created in 1941
 * created as a detention camp
 * proper sewage wasn't installed until 1943
 * Barraks were furnished with dirt floor and straw
 * plank beds filled with sod
 * mattresses were filled with straw
 * first prisoners were 10,000 men from [|Slovakia]
 * means sacrifice by fire
 * too many murders to know how many exactly
 * dug their own graves

Majdanek Camp by Becca Myers

Majdanek by Andrew Ebersole
 * This camp started in 1941.
 * It was an extermination camp, and concentraction camp.[[image:file:majdanek_1.jpg]]
 * It was about 2.5 mile from Lublin
 * Majdanek wasn't hidden away in remote areas[[image:file:majdanek_1.jpg align="right"]]This camp was a SS-run prisoner of war camp
 * In 1942 they began expand the camp to contain 250,000
 * In Feb. 1943 it was turned into a concentraction camp
 * In Majdanek different races were there
 * 1,000 inmates were evacuated on the death march
 * In October 2005 4 survivors went back to Majdanek
 * This camp was bigger than [|Auschwitz]
 * 78,000 victims, which 59,000 of them were Jews
 * The camp used [|Gas Chambers] to kill there prisoners