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Majdanek or Maidanek (mīdä`nĕk), village, Lubelskie prov., SE Poland, a suburb of Lublin. The Germans established and operated a concentration camp there in World War II. An estimated 170,000 to 360,000 persons of 22 nationalities (chiefly Jews, Russians, and Poles) died there. Majdanek Nazi extermination camp. [Ger. Hist.: Wigoder, 113] See : Genocide How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In Majdanek, there were 100,000 Polish prisoners, 40,000 in Mauthausen, 35,000 in Dachau, 30,000 in Sachsenhausen, 23,000 in Buchenwald, 16,000 in Plaschau, and 34,000 in Ravensbruck, the women's concentration camp. But six--Auschwitz, Chelmno, Treblinka, Majdanek, Sobibor, and Belzec, all in occupied Poland, where the local population was considered less sympathetic to the Jews' plight--were deliberately outfitted for mass murder. They were painted by a Soviet artist who liberated Majdanek, a concentration camp, and my blood ran cold as I stood before them. |
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