Bartłomiej Grzanka's paper, Restoring memory. The role of the Kulmhof Museum at the former German extermination camp in Chełmno on the River Ner, in commemorating the site of the tragedy and victims shows the post-war process of marginalisation and depreciation of the post-camp space. The recovery of the memory of the Holocaust began with the creation of the Kulmhof Museum at the former German extermination camp in Chełmno nad Nerem in 1987, which, through scientific research, new forms of commemoration and educational activities, bestows the place with proper identity, including a spatial dimension. The presentation titled Visual Strategies of Memory. Photographs as a form of narration in museums on the grounds of concentration and extermination camps by Agata Jankowska referred to the role and strategy of using camp photographs in historical exhibitions. The author stated that the museum changes the original meaning of the photographs, gives them new, humanising meanings and that the photographs create a specific imaginarium about the Holocaust and concentration/death camps. Piotr Stanek in his speech Scientific experiences and challenges from the perspective of half a century. The case of the Central Museum of Prisoners of War emphasised the need and importance of scientific activities by martyrdom museums. He also referred to how the museum solves the basic problem of creating a source base and how the main directions of research have changed, as a result of the extensive area of research.
An important point and a summary of the second day of the conference was the first panel debate organised at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, entitled What is a post-camp site? Meanings, functions, contexts, with the participation of Roma Sendyka, Robert Traba and Anna Ziembińska-Witek, led by Andrzej Stępnik. The discussion centred on understanding important research categories such as "a post-camp site", "authenticity", "aesthetics", and their interpretation in the context of the process of commemoration and musealisation of the grounds of former German concentration and extermination camps, as well as the question of who the stakeholders in martyrdom museums are, and what are the prospects for their development. As stated, the "post-camp site" is undoubtedly a complex and ambiguous space that communicates the past and facilitates its understanding, deciphering and interpretation on many levels (intellectual, emotional, material, cultural, aesthetic, tourist, educational).
The third and last day of the meeting was dominated by the analysis of various areas of activity of martyrdom museums. The results of the visitors' surveys at the State Museum at Majdanek and the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum were presented, with particular emphasis on the historical knowledge acquired and the impressions of the recipients after visits to these sites. The issues of the role of research in the development of education in memorial sites were also discussed, as well as the psychological aspects of post-camp trauma. Jan Kutnik, in his paper entitled Conditions of reception of the exhibition of the State Museum at Majdanek, presented the preliminary results of his research on what factors play the most significant role in a situation where visitors encounter a representation of the border situation in an authentic memorial site and what helps them to cope better with the narrative on genocide.