Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland, Minister of Culture and National Heritage Piotr Gliński and Director of the State Museum at Majdanek dr Tomasz Kranz invite to the commemoration ceremony of the 75th anniversary of the prisoners’ uprising at the German Nazi death camp in Sobibór.

The ceremony will be held on October 14, 2018, at 12.00 in the Museum and Memorial Site in Sobibór. German Nazi death camp (1942–1943). Branch of the State Museum at Majdanek.

Programme:

• welcome remarks;

• official speeches;

• ecumenical prayer for the murdered;

• laying wreaths and lighting candles.

After the official part, the participants of the ceremony may visit the open-air exhibition "Recovered from the Ashes" presenting museum items, mainly personal belongings of the murdered, found during archaeological excavations at the former Nazi German extermination camp in Sobibór.

R.S.V.P. until September 30, 2018:
tel. +48 81 710 28 21
e-mail: sekretariat@majdanek.eu

Journalists and media professionals require accreditation to access the ceremony of the 75th anniversary of the prisoners’ uprising at the German Nazi death camp in Sobibór. For more information visit http://www.majdanek.eu/en/page/dla_mediow/52