Majdanek 1944 - Opfer und Täter (1986)

Majdanek 1944 - Opfer und Täter plot

Majdanek, also spelled Maidanek, was both a concentration and extermination camp, located on the south-eastern outskirts of the city of Lublin in Poland, and as a result this human abattoir was given the name Lublin-Majdanek. Originally the camp was intended to house prisoners of war. For this purpose, the gate was opened on July 21, 1941. The first 5,000 POWs were soldiers of the USSR. They arrived in the fall of 1941. Before long, they were starving and exposed to the harsh climate of the season. The next transports consisted mainly of Polish Jews. However, it is a known fact that non-Jewish Polish prisoners were also sent to Majdanek. In the autumn of 1942 the camp became an extermination camp for Jews. The first transports with 15,000 Jewish victims came from Slovakia and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Then another 36,500 from the Polish countryside. Also, 6,000 came from the Netherlands while Greek Jews were also deported to Majdanek. This was followed by 74,000 Polish Jews from Warsaw, Bialystok and the Lublin area. As in many other cases, due to the limited information available and lack of documentation found, the number of Jews murdered in Majdanek varies. It is estimated that the number must be between 100,000 and 250,000, mainly from starvation, but also from execution. It will most likely never be known how many Russian POWs were killed here and in other camps.

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