Majdanek concentration camp

Majdanek was a Nazi concentration and extermination camp on the outskirts of Lublin in German-occupied Poland, opened in 1941. Some 78,000 prisoners, about 59,000 of them Jews, died there, most notoriously in the mass shootings of the 'Harvest Festival' in November 1943. It was the first major camp to be liberated, by the Red Army in July 1944, and its preserved site is a museum.