Published : 2014-12-31

Slovak Jews in Majdanek camp

Marta Grudzińska



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The aim of an article „Slovak Jews in Majdanek camp” is to present the facts about transports and characteristics of those prisoners. Transports of Jews from Slovakia were headed to Majdanek from the end of May till the middle of June 1942. In this period, only men were sent to the camp. Women, children and people who were unable to work were placed in ghettos in the area of Lublin district. They were brought to KL Lublin in the summer and autumn 1943 after liquidation of the ghettos. Slovak Jews did not present a socially homogeneous group in the camp. Those who were educated and knew German took various functions. Their privileged position in the camp and the fact that they did not allow anyone else to enter their group made other prisoners jealous and was a reason of conflicts with other groups. Pentalties, chicanes, killing in gas chamber and above all primitive living conditions were a reason of high mortality in the camp. Those who stayed alive were murdered on the 3th of November 1943 during the “Erntefest” action. This day about 18 000 Jews from many countries were shot. Only those who were deported to KL Auschwitz in May and June 1942 and those who ran away survived.

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Auschwitz, KL Majdanek, Operation Erntefest, Slovak Jews, Holocaust, deportations, ghetto



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Grudzińska, M. (2014). Slovak Jews in Majdanek camp. Jewish Studies. Almanac, 4(4), 53–75. https://doi.org/10.56583/sz.529

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