The following is a list of subcamps of the

Majdanek concentration camp Majdanek (or Lublin) was a Nazi concentration and extermination camp built and operated by the SS on the outskirts of the city of Lublin during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. It had seven gas chambers, two wooden gallows, a ...

run by Nazi Germany in

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during World War II. The list, supplied by the

Majdanek State Museum The Majdanek State Museum ( pl, Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku) is a memorial museum and education centre founded in the fall of 1944 on the grounds of the Nazi Germany Majdanek death camp located in Lublin, Poland. It was the first museum of its ...

,Majdanek State Museum (2014)
Witryna Państwowego Muzeum na Majdanku
Retrieved 6 March 2015. identifies two German categories of the KL Lublin/Majdanek subcamps; the ''Arbeitzlagers'', and the so-called ''Kommandos''. The satellite camps were named ''Aussenlager'' (external camp), ''Nebenlager'' (extension or subcamp), and ''Arbeitslager'' (labor camp). Some of them were less than ten kilometers away from the main camp, with prisoner populations ranging from several dozens to several thousand. Around 1943 the SS put a number of separate camps under the command of the Majdanek administration including

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, Krasnik, Pulawy and

Poniatowa concentration camp Poniatowa concentration camp in the town of Poniatowa in occupied Poland, west of Lublin, was established by the '' SS'' in the latter half of 1941, initially to hold Soviet prisoners of war following Operation Barbarossa. By , about 20,000 Sov ...

s. However, a similar plan to include the

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in the list was never realized partly because of the

Sobibor extermination camp Sobibor (, Polish: ) was an extermination camp built and operated by Nazi Germany as part of Operation Reinhard. It was located in the forest near the village of Żłobek Duży in the General Government region of German-occupied Poland. As ...

uprising in the vicinity. Plaszow remained an independent ''Konzentrationslager'' associated with

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Subcamps of Majdanek

Guarded by the '' SS'' division of the ''Totenkopfverbände'', the known sub-camps of KL Majdanek included:

References

Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku
(The Majdanek State Museum) official website.

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Towarzystwo Opieki nad Majdankiem – Oddział w Białymstoku
(The Society for the Preservation of Majdanek) official website. Majdanek concentration camp World War II sites in Poland

Majdanek Majdanek (or Lublin) was a Nazi concentration and extermination camp built and operated by the SS on the outskirts of the city of Lublin during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. It had seven gas chambers, two wooden gallows, a ...

Subcamps of Majdanek

See also

References