Published : 2023-12-30

Children of Various Nationalities in the German Concentration Camp at Majdanek

Magdalena Gącikowska



Ryszard Skrzyniarz

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1732-8155

Abstract

The article focuses on children of three nationalities: Polish, Jewish and Belarusian, who constituted the largest groups in the German concentration camp at Majdanek. The ordeal and extermination of children at Majdanek are among the most tragic issues in the history of this camp. It is impossible to say exactly how many children stayed in this camp and how many of them died there because the Germans deliberately destroyed the documents and did not even record all data about the children to conceal the actual state of affairs. Hence, we will never know the true data about German crimes against children during World War II.

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Majdanek, concentration camp, Polish children, Jewish children, Belarusian children, Children of the Zamość region



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Gącikowska, M., & Skrzyniarz, R. (2023). Children of Various Nationalities in the German Concentration Camp at Majdanek. Biografistyka Pedagogiczna, 8(2), 335–355. https://doi.org/10.36578/BP.2023.08.46

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"Biografistyka Pedagogiczna" received funding for the years 2022-2024 from the funds of the Minister of Education and Science under the programme „Rozwój Czasopism Naukowych”.

Project duration: 2023-2024.

The amount of co-financing is 65 992,00 PLN

Contract number: RCN/SP/0434/2021/1