Lublin-Majdanek concentration camp
Nazi concentration and extermination camp near Lublin in eastern Poland
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds
0 sources
Summary
Lublin-Majdanek concentration camp is a military museum[1]. It ranks in the top 0.86% of military museum entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,061 views/month, #3 of 348).[2]
Key Facts
- Located in the administrative territorial entity: Lublin[3]
- Country: Poland[4]
- Instance of: extermination camp[5], Nazi concentration camp[6], architectural heritage monument[7]
- Location: Lublin[8]
- Child organization or unit: Dorohucza concentration camp[9], Pulawy concentration camp[10], Blizyn concentration camp[11], Lemberg concentration camp[12], Radom concentration camp[13], Lublin (Deutsche Ausrüstungswerke) concentration camp[14], Trawniki concentration camp[15], Poniatowa concentration camp[16], Janowska concentration camp[17], Budzyń concentration camp[18], Lublin Alter Flughafen men's concentration camp[19], Lublin Alter Flughafen women's concentration camp[20]
- Commons category: Majdanek concentration camp[21]
- Catalog code: camps/560[22]
- Inception: 1941[23], January 1, 1944[24]
- Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: July 3, 1944[25]
- Coordinate location: 51.22277777777778, 22.59861111111111[26], 51.221944, 22.598056[27]
- Parent organization or unit: SS Main Economic and Administrative Office[28]
- Significant event: construction[29]
- Official website: http://www.majdanek.eu[30]
- Topic's main category: Category:Majdanek concentration camp[31]
- Commons gallery: Konzentrationslager Majdanek[32]
- Director / manager: Karl-Otto Koch[33]
- Number of deaths: 360,000[34]
- Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 7[35], National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan[36], Majdanek, the concentration camp in Lublin[37]
- Heritage designation: immovable monument in Poland[38]
- Category for people who died here: Category:People who died in Majdanek concentration camp[39]
- Date of official opening: September 27, 1941[40]
- Native label: Majdanek[41]
- Significant person: Odilo Globočnik[42]
- Polish cultural heritage register number: A/1029[43]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikiproject Nuremberg Trials[44]
Why It Matters
Lublin-Majdanek concentration camp has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[45] It is known by 75 alternative names across languages and contexts.[46]