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Mar 16

16.03.1942| Hours before the launch of "Einsatz Reinhardt", chief of operation's staff, Hermann Höfle, summoned the final briefing on the liquidation of the #Lublin ghetto. SS, German security police & civil administration representatives met to discuss the deportations’ details.

As per Fritz Reuter's summary note, Höfle informed that “Jews would undergo selections, Jews unfit for labor would be sent to Bełżec, Jews chosen for work would be concentrated in a big camp [Majdanek] & labor force could be applied for. Jews sent to Bełżec were never to return.”

The following night the German & Austrian SS and security police functionaries supported by Trawnikimänner entered the ghetto at Lublin’s Podzamcze, beginning its liquidation & operation “Reinhardt”: the central stage of #Holocaust that claimed the lives of ca. 2,000,000 victims.

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Mar 6

On the European Day of the Righteous, we recall the bravery and sacrifice of those who risked their own fate in order to save Jewish lives during the WWII German occupation of Europe. Some of them paid the ultimate price. These are the #Righteous that were deported to #Majdanek.

#Righteous Daniel Trocmé, a French teacher from Les Roches, who participated in the organised help to the local Jewish community by providing Jews with shelters & false identities. Arrested on 29.06.1943 he went through several camps & perished at #Majdanek on 02.04.1944.

#Righteous Tadeusz Kosibowicz, a Polish doctor ran a hospital ward in Silesia. He treated patients of all origins, including Jews hiding under false identities. One German patient reported him to the Gestapo. Deported to #Majdanek in 1941 he stayed at the camp until April 1944.

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Oct 12, 2022

Alina Paradowska lived in Warsaw. She was only 18 when Gestapo arrested her in July 1942 as a suspect in elimination of the informer installed by the Germans within the Polish resistance. First detained at Pawiak, she was deported to #Majdanek in January 1943. #WomenofMajdanek

At #Majdanek Alina wrote poems like To My Mother: Oh Mother, you gave yourself up to save our lives,
Can I somehow repay you with my own sacrifice?
I dream of you and I feel your presence around,
And yet I snap back, To the barracks,
And the others’ faces keeping me astound.

In KL Lublin Alina worked in various labour groups including the auxiliary personnel and later nursing staff at the women’s camp infirmary. In April 1944 she was transferred to KL Ravensbrück and then to the Leipzig kommando (KL Buchenwald subcamp). She survived. #WomenofMajdanek

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