Majdanek: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As	Lublin-Majdanek • Maidanek
Date	October 1941 - July 1944

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Circular stone mausoleum with a domed roof and sculpted relief, elevated on a wide mound with a staircase, at Majdanek in Lublin, Poland.

Majdanek bath and gas chambers

Majdanek bath chamber

Majdanek crematorium ovens

Majdanek barracks

Majdanek guard tower

Majdanek concentration camp and extermination camp, Lublin, Poland

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Lublin

Lublin

Poland

Poland

country, Europe

Key People

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Karl Otto Koch

German Nazi commandant