{"id":94964,"date":"2022-04-30T17:05:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T15:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=94964"},"modified":"2022-04-30T07:48:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T05:48:11","slug":"09-09-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=94964","title":{"rendered":"Polish museum tour highlights horrors of the Holocaust"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reunion68.com\/Biuletyn\/img\/abc-news.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"35%\"><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/polish-museum-tour-highlights-horrors-holocaust\/story?id=84345007&amp;cid=social_twitter_abcn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Polish museum tour highlights horrors of the Holocaust<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Nathan Luna andIvan Pereira<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 100%;\">\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>The Majdanek State Museum is located at the site of a former concentration camp.<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"content-alignment\">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1k2ivX3D3BU\" width=\"680\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">ABC News&#8217; Phil Lipof goes on a deeply emotional tour through the State Museum at Majdanek in Poland, the site of a former Nazi concentration camp, where unspeakable horrors took place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Caption__Title\" style=\"text-align: left;\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"RichText\" style=\"color: #000080;\">Bearing Witness: Life in a former concentration camp<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span class=\"RichText\">ABC News&#8217; Phil Lipof goes on a deeply emotional tour through the State Museum at Maj.. <\/span>ABC News<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The Majdanek death camp located in Lublin, Poland was the site of one of the largest mass executions recorded during the Holocaust.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Over 18,000 Jews were killed on one day, Nov. 3, 1943.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Today, the State Museum at Majdanek is located at the site of the former concentration camp, and provides visitors with the raw remnants of the horrors of the Holocaust.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">ABC News&#8217; Phil Lipof took a tour of the museum with \u0141ukasz Myszala, one of its archivists who highlighted some of the location&#8217;s disturbing artifacts.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"ResponsiveWrapper\">\n<aside class=\"InlineElement InlineElement--content-width InlineElement--desktop InlineImage\" aria-label=\"Image\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s.abcnews.com\/images\/International\/Majdanek-3-abc-er-220427_1651077359286_hpEmbed_19x10_992.jpg\" alt=\"PHOTO: The State Museum at Majdanek is located at the site of a former concentration camp where 18,400 Jews were systematically murdered in one day.\" width=\"100%\" data-mptype=\"image\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>The State Museum at Majdanek is located at the site of a former concentration camp wh&#8230;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8220;Most of the 78,000 people who perished here at Majdanek rest right here at your side,\u201d Myszala told Lipof, referencing a mausoleum covering a mound of ashes recovered from bodies buried there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The site remains surrounded by barbed wires and fences, which were electrified during the Holocaust. Myszala said that the Nazis took great lengths to conceal their genocide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8220;Although the gas chambers were so close to the prisoners, it was a very well concealed crime,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They didn&#8217;t want anybody to see what was happening&#8230;that was meant to remain a secret.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s.abcnews.com\/images\/International\/Majdanek-2-abc-er-220427_1651077253768_hpEmbed_9x5_992.jpg\" alt=\"PHOTO: ABC News' Phil Lipof takes a tour of the State Museum at Majdanek with the museum's archivist Lukasz Myszala.. The museum is located at the site of a former concentration camp.\" width=\"100%\" data-mptype=\"image\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>ABC News&lt; ABC News&#8217; Phil Lipof takes a tour of the State Museum at Majdanek with the museum&#8217;s ar..<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Myszala said that the barracks were designed to keep 250 prisoners, but there were likely much more held inside those rooms. Shoes that belonged to the concentration camp prisoners are on display at the museum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8220;They\u2019re crammed together in cages,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Just like the people who wore them were when they worked here, and died here.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">And the gruesome task of getting the bodies of those killed in the gas chambers into crematoria fell to other prisoners, according to Myszala. This group, known as the &#8220;Geheimnistr\u00e4gern,&#8221; or the carriers of the secret, would eventually be shot by Nazi soldiers and be replaced with a new prisoners, Myszala said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8220;Usually, the lifespan of those prisoners [in those camps] was between four to six weeks,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Myszala said the Nazis also went to even greater lengths to hide the mass executions that took place on Nov. 3, 1943.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s.abcnews.com\/images\/International\/holocaust-museum-02-ht-llr-220427_1651104669108_hpEmbed_16x9_992.jpg\" alt=\"PHOTO: The State Museum at Majdanek is located at the site of a former concentration camp.\u201d\" width=\"100%\" data-mptype=\"image\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>ABC News<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The State Museum at Majdanek is located at the site of a former concentration camp.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Prisoners were brought out of their barracks in groups to ditches and systemically shot. Roughly 18,400 Jews were killed on that day, according to Myszala.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The Nazis dubbed the executions &#8220;Operation Erntefest,&#8221; or &#8220;harvest festival,&#8221; because of the way they masked the killings, Myszala said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The archivist said prisoners who were inside the barracks during the executions recalled hearing music being played, including waltzes, foxtrots and marches.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8220;The Germans played loud music to conceal this crime, first of all, to cover up the noises, drown out the machine guns. But secondly, it was meant to provide an appropriate aura for the harvest festival,&#8221; Myszala said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s.abcnews.com\/images\/International\/holocaust-museum-01-ht-llr-220427_1651104632490_hpMain_16x9_992.jpg\" alt=\"PHOTO: Lukasz Myszala, an archivist for the State Museum at Majdanek, shows ABC News\u2019 Phil Lipof the inscription engraved at the front of the mausoleum where prisoners' ashes are kept.\" width=\"100%\" data-mptype=\"image\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Lukasz Myszala, an archivist for the State Museum at Majdanek, shows ABC News\u2019 Phil Li&#8230;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The archivist said it was important that the world never forget the violence that took place at the site and, more importantly, make sure that atrocities never happen again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8220;May our fate be a warning to you,&#8221; Myszala said as he translated the inscription engraved at the front of the mausoleum where prisoners&#8217; ashes are kept.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 100%;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion&#8217;68,<\/em><em><br \/>\nani te\u017c webmastera Blogu Reunion&#8217;68, chyba ze jest to wyra\u017anie zaznaczone.<br \/>\nTwoje uwagi, linki, w\u0142asne artyku\u0142y lub wiadomo\u015bci prze\u015blij na adres:<br \/>\n<\/em><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><em><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"mailto:webmaster@reunion68.com\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">webmaster@reunion68.com<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<hr style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polish museum tour highlights horrors of the Holocaust Nathan Luna andIvan Pereira The Majdanek State Museum is located at the site of a former concentration camp. 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