Majdanek Resistance

Majdanek Resistance by Trey Blanding and Andrew Ebersole

• constructed in 1941
• bigger then Auschwitz-Birkenau at 2.7 square kilometers
• concentration, 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

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• 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

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.
• It was about 2.5 mile from Lublin
• Majdanek wasn't hidden away in remote areasThis 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

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