Majdanek

Lublin, PL

One of the largest Nazi concentration and extermination camps, located on the outskirts of Lublin in occupied Poland and operational from 1941 to 1944. Between 60,000 and 80,000 prisoners — predominantly Jewish, Polish, and Soviet — were killed here through gas chambers, shooting, and starvation. Overrun by Soviet forces in July 1944, it was the first major Nazi camp discovered by the Allies largely intact, preserving gas chambers and crematoria as evidence.