Language:
Polish
Year of publication:
2013
Titel der Quelle:
Studia Judaica (Kraków)
Angaben zur Quelle:
16,2 (2013) 115-144
Keywords:
Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Museums
Abstract:
The State Museum at Majdanek was created in November 1944; its first permanent exhibition opened in September 1945. The main goal of the museum at that time was to lay the foundations of national martyrdom in postwar Poland. The "Jewish" exhibition opened in 1946 as one of the so-called "national barracks" and functioned until 1949, when state policy turned isolationist. The exhibition that opened in 1954 was mainly a propaganda tool of the communist regime, marginalizing the Holocaust subject matter. The 1962 exhibition (which existed for more than 30 years) was done with greater care and accuracy. The exhibition which opened in 1996 was not fully corrected, but it showed a positive tendency in highlighting individual victims. This idea was further developed in 2008. The new permanent exhibition, which will open in the near future, will strive to show that the history of mass murder which took place at Majdanek is a sum of individual people's fates and tragedies.
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