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Majdanek
12017-07-03T15:22:21-04:00Anonymous122Soviet prisoners of war, survivors of the Majdanek camp, at the camp's liberation. Poland, July 1944.plain2017-07-03T15:22:59-04:00United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumAnonymous
12017-06-22T11:06:19-04:00Majdanek9plain2020-03-29T14:41:50-04:00The Majdanek concentration camp in Lublin functioned primarily as a killing center and forced labor camp. It also served as a detention center for Polish prisoners, members of the Polish underground resistance, Soviet prisoners of war, and others. The majority of Jews entered Majdanek as forced laborers and died as a result of brutal conditions. Gassing of prisoners using Zyklon B began in October 1942. The Nazis also murdered thousands of Jews by gunfire. On November 3, 1943, special SS and police units shot 18,000 Jews in Operation Erntefest (Harvest Festival), the largest single-day, single-location killing during the Holocaust.
