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The Museum and Memorial in Sobibór commemorates the victims murdered in the German Nazi extermination camp between May 1942 and October 1943. Its operation was brought to a halt by a prisoner uprising, which was one of the most significant acts of Jewish resistance against the Holocaust. The Museum also continues the mission of survivors embodied in the words of the uprising co-leader Alexander Pechersky: “Those of you who survive should bear witness to this. Let the world know what happened here.”
Here you can find articles about the history of the camps, personal stories of deportees, and more information about the Museum collections.


The fate of the Jewish Kral family from Vienna

from the Sobibór collection
“Trains of Death – Railway Transports to German Extermination Camps. Current Knowledge and Research Proposals”
In April and May the staff of the State Museum at Majdanek went on study tours at the key museums and education centres of Amsterdam and Berlin. The aim of their networking visit was to learn about the activities and programmes of foreign historical museums and to exchange ideas and experiences with diverse museum professionals.
In order to mark the 80th anniversary of the World War II ending in Europe, we share our latest publication prepared for Polish and foreign teachers.
80 years ago, on 8 May 1945, World War II ended. Or maybe – to paraphrase dr Zygmunt Klukowski, who is cited in one of the published essays – we entered the 86th year of war in January 2025?
Check our free online VARIA magazine