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    51°13′14″N 22°35′58″E / 51.22056°N 22.59944°E / 51.22056; 22.59944 Majdanek (or Lublin) was a Nazi concentration and extermination camp built and operated...
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    (German: Aktion Erntefest) was the murder of up to 43,000 Jews at the Majdanek, Poniatowa and Trawniki concentration camps by the SS, the Order Police...
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  • Majdanek was a German Nazi concentration camp named after a park near the city of Lublin in eastern Poland. Majdanek (comes from a suburb of Lublin "Majdan...
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    The case of the Majdanek death camp The Majdanek trials were a series of consecutive war-crime trials held in Poland and in Germany during and after World...
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    Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau. Extermination through labour was also used at the Auschwitz and Majdanek death camps. Millions...
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    The Majdanek State Museum (Polish: Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku) is a memorial museum and education centre founded in the fall of 1944 on the grounds of...
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    concentration camp List of subcamps of Kraków-Płaszów Majdanek concentration camp List of subcamps of Majdanek Mauthausen concentration camp List of subcamps...
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    Hermine Braunsteiner (category People convicted in the Majdanek trials)
    was a Nazi Austrian SS Helferin and female camp guard at Ravensbrück and Majdanek concentration camps, and the first Nazi war criminal to be extradited from...
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  • Majdanek Kozicki [mai̯ˈdanɛk kɔˈʑit͡ski] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Piaski, within Świdnik County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern...
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    were women. In 1942, the first female guards arrived at Auschwitz and Majdanek from Ravensbrück. The year after, the Nazis began conscripting women because...
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    concentration camp. This method was adopted for mass-murder at the Auschwitz and Majdanek camps. Up to 6,000 victims were gassed with Zyklon B each day at Auschwitz...
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    Martin Gottfried Weiss (category Majdanek concentration camp personnel)
    later, from November 1943 until May 1944, as the fourth commandant of Majdanek concentration camp. He was executed for war crimes. Weiss was born in Weiden...
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    approximately 1.1 million people in gas chambers installed at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek, and other extermination camps. Hydrogen cyanide, a poisonous gas that...
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    mass-murder using Zyklon B were developed at about the same time at the Majdanek concentration camp and at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, near the earlier-established...
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    Ravensbrück Flossenbürg Sachsenhausen Buchenwald Neuengamme Auschwitz Majdanek Kraków-Płaszów Natzweiler-Struthof Stutthof Bergen-Belsen Gross-Rosen Mittelbau...
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  • Treblinka, approximately 80 kilometres (50 miles) northeast of Warsaw. Majdanek (October 1942 – July 1944). Located just outside the city of Lublin. Auschwitz-Birkenau...
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    Anton Thumann (category Majdanek concentration camp personnel)
    to March 1944 he began service as Protective Custody Camp Leader at the Majdanek concentration camp. Due to his sadistic tendencies and participation in...
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  • Karl-Otto Koch (category Majdanek concentration camp personnel)
    September 1941 until August 1942, he served as the first commandant of the Majdanek concentration camp in occupied Poland, stealing vast amounts of valuables...
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  • investigations began with Karl-Otto Koch, the commandant of Buchenwald and Majdanek, Koch's wife Ilse Koch, sadistic SS NCO Martin Sommer, and Buchenwald's...
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    Extermination Auschwitz II-Birkenau Chełmno Majdanek Operation Reinhard Belzec Sobibor Treblinka Concentration Auschwitz I Gross-Rosen Kraków-Płaszów Potulice...
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    Elsa Ehrich (category Majdanek trials executions)
    at Kraków-Płaszów and the Majdanek concentration camp during World War II. She was tried in Lublin, Poland at the Majdanek Trials and sentenced to death...
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  • John Demjanjuk (category Majdanek concentration camp personnel)
    served as a Trawniki man and Nazi camp guard at Sobibor extermination camp, Majdanek, and Flossenbürg. Demjanjuk became the center of global media attention...
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    Europe to German extermination camps in Poland: Auschwitz, Bełżec, Chełmno, Majdanek, Sobibór, and Treblinka. Most prisoners were gassed on arrival. A former...
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    Hildegard Lächert (category People convicted in the Majdanek trials)
    Ravensbrück, Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau. In October 1942, at the age of 22, Lächert, a German nurse, was called to serve at Majdanek as an Aufseherin...
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    Henio Zytomirski (category People who died in Majdanek concentration camp)
    was a Polish Jew, who was murdered at the age of 9 in a gas chamber at Majdanek concentration camp during the German Nazi occupation of Poland. Henio became...
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    Max Koegel (category Majdanek concentration camp personnel)
    a Nazi officer who served as a commander at Lichtenburg, Ravensbrück, Majdanek and Flossenbürg concentration camps. In 1946 he was arrested for his role...
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  • subcamps of the Majdanek concentration camp run by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II. The list, supplied by the Majdanek State Museum,...
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  • Overseer of a Sorting Party"). Mayer later went to the Majdanek camp near Lublin, and when Majdanek was evacuated in early 1944, she arrived back at Auschwitz...
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    through labor systems, including at Auschwitz Konzentrationslager and Majdanek; both operating in a dual capacity until the end of the war. In total,...
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    Arthur Liebehenschel (category Majdanek concentration camp personnel)
    November 1901 – 24 January 1948) was a German commandant at the Auschwitz and Majdanek concentration camps during the Holocaust. After the war, he was convicted...
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