The State Museum at Majdanek is located at the site of the former concentration camp, and provides visitors with the raw remnants of the horrors of the Holocaust. lipoftv took a tour with one of its archivists who highlighted some disturbing artifacts.
ABC News' Phil Lipof goes on a deeply emotional tour through the State Museum at Majdanek in Poland, the site of a former Nazi concentration camp, where unspeakable horrors took place.The Majdanek death camp located in Lublin, Poland was the site of one of the largest mass executions recorded during the Holocaust.Today, the State Museum at Majdanek is located at the site of the former concentration camp, and provides visitors with the raw remnants of the horrors of the Holocaust.
The site remains surrounded by barbed wires and fences, which were electrified during the Holocaust. Myszala said that the Nazis took great lengths to conceal their genocide. And the gruesome task of getting the bodies of those killed in the gas chambers into crematoria fell to other prisoners, according to Myszala. This group, known as the"Geheimnisträgern," or the carriers of the secret, would eventually be shot by Nazi soldiers and be replaced with a new prisoners, Myszala said.Myszala said the Nazis also went to even greater lengths to hide the mass executions that took place on Nov. 3, 1943.
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