Majdanek Concentration Camp Tour

A tour to the former Nazi concentration camp near Lublin-among an estimated 150,000 prisoners who entered Majdanek, 80,000 people, including 60,000 Jews, were killed – shot or murdered in gas chambers. Now visitors can see prisoner’s barracks and Monuments – Mausoleums containing the ashes of victims. This eight hours tour is a must for people who wish to see and hear more about Polish and Jewish history.

The official name is Konzentrationslager Lublin -Concentration Camp Lublin. The colloquial name came from the name of Lublin’s district – Majdan Tatarski where the camp was founded.

In the beginning, Majdanek was a small camp for POWs, later for Jews displacement from Zamojszczyzna (A region in the southeast of Poland near the city of Zamość ). But after the German offensive in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, it has been rebuilt to contain over 50,000 prisoners.

From October 1941 to July 1944 about 150,000 of people were working in this camp. They were used for work inside the camp as also in German industrial companies placed near Lublin. The number of victims was smaller than Auschwitz or Belzec, but the means of extermination were as cruel as everywhere or even worse. Executes by a firing squad were ordinary here.

The museum in Majdanek was founded immediately after the expulsion German army from this territory and before the end of II World War. The exposition is prepared with great care. It includes baths and prisoners barracks, gas chambers, crematories and German warehouses. Majdanek Camp is one of the best-preserved Nazi concentration camps in Poland. The mission of the museum at Majdanek is to tend to memory and evolve education about the German occupation in Poland. This tour also contains a small tour of Jewish Lublin.

Since January 2019 I am one of the recommended guides at the State Museum  Majdanek.

ITINERARY:

• Majdanek Concentration Camp – app. 2,5 hours
• Old Jewish cemetery in Lublin – the oldest existing   Jewish cemetery in Poland
• Yeshiva School (Rabbinical Academy) in Lublin – founded by Meir Shapiro 
• Former Ghetto area in Lublin 

YOU MAY COMBINE THIS TOUR WITH THE FOLLOWING OF MY TOURS:

• Polin Museum Tour
• Treblinka Extermination Camp Tour
• Auschwitz Birkenau Tour
• Tykocin Tour and Bialystok
• Jewish Lodz Tour
• Jewish Warsaw Tour

Duration: 9-10 hours 

Total amount: 400 Euro per tour

Driving & Walking Tour – VAN (  1-7 passengers )