Martyrdom museums

The Museum of Martyrdom "Pod Zegarem" is located in the cells of the former Gestapo arrest. The exhibition presents the profiles of prisoners, both during their detention as well as their subsequent fate. ...

The German concentration camp operated from October 1941 to July 1944. The prisoners came from about 30 countries. On the site of the former camp, the State Museum at Majdanek was established with the purpose to nurture the memory of the victims of the German occupation in the Lublin region during World War II. ...

At the end of October 2020 an exhibition "SS-Sonderkommando Sobibor. German death camp 1942–1943" presenting the tragic fate of the victims was opened. The museum and the area surrounding it have undergone a major transformation. The facility has a new building, which presents, among others, exhibits obtained during archaeological works. Numerous items belonging to prisoners remind the visitors of the personal tragedies of the victims. In order to communicate knowledge more effectively, the exhibition has been enriched with numerous multimedia forms. In addition to the exhibition room, the ...