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The
concentration camp in Majdanek was the second as to
the size, after Auschwitz, the Nazi camp in Europe.
The camp was built in the south - west part of Lublin
in 1941 and it occupied the area of 270 ha. The camp
existed since 1941 to 1944 and in this period 300 000
people were kept in it. Among them were Jews (40 %),
Poles (30%), Russians, Czechs, Italians, Austrians and
Frenchmen. In Majdanek the Nazis murdered 250 000 people,
among them there were 100 000 Jews. More than 50 % of
these people died as a result of primitive conditions
of life, hunger, disease and overworking. The rest of
them were murdered in the gas chambers or they were
shot. Now there is in Majdanek a museum, where there
are accumulated 300 000 genuine items, like prisoners'
equipment connected with work and life in the camp,
things which served the terror and annihilation and
prisoners' clothes.
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