Special Exhibition: Spaces of the Holocaust

30. April 2025 - 10:00

31. August 2025 - 18:00

An exhibition developed by the State Museum at Majdanek and entitled “Spaces of the Holocaust: Majdanek, Bełżec, Sobibór” continues at the Bergen-Belsen Memorial from 29 April.

 

It describes the history of the three eponymous sites as Nazi camps that operated in the Lublin District during World War II. As centres of immediate extermination of Jews, they were a vital part of the so-called “Final Solution to the Jewish question.” That history’s largest genocide is today known as the Holocaust.

 

Although it is the Holocaust topic that dominates in the exhibition’s content – as the dimension that connects the three sites – its scope goes beyond that aspect. The authors also describe the broad and regional contexts for the persecution of Jews in occupied Poland, the role of Lublin in the German terror policies, as well as the fates of Poles that were imprisoned at Majdanek. Each section devoted to one of the three sites is also extended with a part dedicated to the memorials created in their locations – their development and commemorative activities. Today they all operate under the auspices of the State Museum at Majdanek.

 

The exhibition texts and catalogue are bilingual (German/English). Copies of the catalogue can be picked up free of charge at the bookshop. There is also a digital version, which can be browsed online. The exhibition will be on display from 30 April to 31 August 2025 on the concrete path leading to the memorial's documentation centre. Admission is free.

 

 

The Spaces of the Holocaust: Majdanek, Bełżec, Sobibór exhibition is a part of a project developed under the same title within the Young People Remember International programme. It is subsidised by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs thanks to the support of the EVZ Foundation.

 

Exhibition developed by the State Museum at Majdanek

Concept and curators: Łukasz Mrozik, Magdalena Petruk

Language version: English-German