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Language of Description: English
Country: Poland

  1. Kolekcja pomorskich planów i map

    • Collection of Pomeranian plans and maps

    Under file no. 38/382, there is a photograph album from the island Wyspa Spichrzów in Gdańsk, where in 1939 the Germans set up a ghetto for the Jewish population.

  2. Spółka Gruntowa dla Prowincji Górnośląskiej z o.o. w Katowicach Oddział w Bielsku

    • Real Estate Company for the Province of Upper Silesia with limited liability, Head Office in Katowice, Bielsko Branch
    • Grundstücksgesellschaft für die Provinz Oberschlesien m.b.H. Leitstelle Kattowitz Zweigstelle Bielitz

  3. Związek Patriotów Polskich w ZSRR

    • Union of Polish Patriots in the USSR

    Most important for the subject of interest here are the files of the Komitet Organizacyjny Żydów Polskich (Polish Jews’ Organizational Committee) affiliated to the ZPP from the years 1944-1945, which include minutes of meetings and conferences, documents concerning Jewish writers, biographies and profiles of activists, and information on the situation of the Jews in the USSR

  4. Narodowe Sily Zbrojne

    • National Armed Forces

  5. Armia Krajowa

    • The Home Army

    The files include those of Home Army's Jewish Department, which gathered information on the fate of the Jewish population in the Polish lands and served as the basis for the compilation of the “black books of Nazi crimes”,

  6. Akta Ignacego Schwarzbarta

    • Ignacy Schwarzbart Files

    This record group comprises all Schwarzbart’s files from his time in France in 1939-1940, as well as some sets of his papers from other periods, above all correspondence, notes, press cuttings, and articles written for print; file no. 13 contains official printed matter of the National Council and typescripts of Schwarzbart’s speeches.

  7. The Society for the Protection of Majdanek (since 1945)

    The fund numbers 993 units and includes the materials documenting the activities of the Society for the Protection of Majdanek.

  8. Polish-Soviet Extraordinary Commission to Examine Crimes in the Area of the Concentration Camp at Majdanek (1944)

    Part of the materials collected in connection with the activities of the Polish-Soviet Extraordinary Commission, mainly reports documenting the work of the commission (like the inspection of the area of the former camp and witness interrogation reports).

  9. NKVD camp

    The materials, most of which are photocopies, are connected with the NKVD camp functioning in the area of Majdanek from autumn 1944.

  10. Women’s Auxiliary Army Service (1942-1944)

    The records of the Women’s Auxiliary Army Service, the organization which operated from 1942 at the Headquarters of the Home Army in the Lublin District. Most documents are connected with the organizational issues of the Women’s Auxiliary Army Service.

  11. OPUS - Central Underground Care (1943-1944)

    The records of OPUS Central Underground Care include the reports from the Lublin district of the Home Army concerning the activity of the occupational authorities, such as reports from arrests of the Home Army soldiers and the financial situations of their families. This fund also includes the reports drawn up on the basis of the information about the situation in the camp provided by the Home Army soldiers imprisoned at Majdanek, and lists of prisoners’ names. The OPUS documents arrived at the Archives of the State Museum at Majdanek in 1971.

  12. Polish Red Cross – Lublin District (1939-1946)

    The records of the Polish Red Cross handed over to the Archives of the State Museum at Majdanek in 1957. The materials are connected with the activity of the Polish Red Cross in the Lublin district in the years 1939-1946. They include: the personal records of the prisoners of Majdanek and the Lublin Castle, who received parcels from their families by hand of the Polish Red Cross; postcards confirming the receipt of the parcels; lists of Polish soldiers who were wounded or killed in 1939; and a register of former forced labourers, people coming back from the camps, refugees and foreigners lo...

  13. Einsatz Reinhardt – Materiallager Chopinstr. 27

    The fund numbers 13 units, most of which contain the books of the warehouses at 27 Chopin Street, where stolen Jewish property was stored as well as the lists of valuables and money taken away from the Jews imprisoned at Majdanek. Apart from the books, the fund includes the orders placed by occupational offices and individual people for different things stored in the warehouses as well as the receipts.

  14. KL Lublin Administration 1941-1944

    Records created by the offices of the concentration camp at Majdanek in the years 1941-1944. The fund numbers 318 units, in which 17700 various documents are stored, such as: personal records of the prisoners and crew members, orders of release, reports of incoming transports, lists, prisoners’ sickness cards and work cards, cloths and money registers, and death books.

  15. Legacies

    The materials handed over by the former prisoners, collected after the war. They document individual people’s activities aiming at commemorating camp victims (correspondence with other prisoners from Poland and abroad, journalistic and educational activity, press materials).

  16. The collection of video recordings

    The Archives of the State Museum at Majdanek posseses 410 recordings presenting the accounts of the former prisoners, important museum events, and TV materials made for the purpose of educational programmes about the Second World War.

  17. A collection of records of the Association of the Former Prisoners of the Lublin Castle and Pod Zegarem prison

    The collection includes both original documents concerning the prisoners of the Lublin Castle and the copies of archival materials as well as photographs and evoked sources like surveys and prisoners’ accounts.

  18. Trial records

    A collection of materials connected with the trials of the Majdanek crew members, such as copies of trial records, interrogation reports, conclusions of judgments.

  19. The collection of photocopies

    The collection of the museum’s own materials and the ones acquired from other archives in Poland and abroad.

  20. The collection of microfilms

    Microfilmed documents from the museum’s own archives and other archives in Poland and abroad.