TESTIMONIES OF LIFE
FROM THE PLACES OF EXTERMINATION.
Anna Wójcik, the State Museum at Majdanek
Personal documents and photographs as a source of knowledge on the fates of victims of German concentration and extermination camps at Majdanek, in Sobibór and Bełżec
The archival resources of the State Museum at Majdanek (APMM) contain a group of very interesting materials, which were developed relatively late and therefore could not be effectively used for museum purposes for quite a long time. It concerns private documents and photographs found at Majdanek after the liquidation of the camp and on the grounds of the former labour camp at the so-called Flugplatz in Lublin, where the Germans segregated the property plundered from the Jewish victims of Operation Reinhardt1.