Majdanek was a camp run by the Waffen-SS in a suburb of Lublin, Poland. The first batch of prisoners arrived in October, 1941. In September, 1943, a large crematorium, containing five furnaces, was added. Close to 500,000 persons passed through Majdanek. Of these, it is estimated that some 360,000 died. About 60% died as a result of the terrible conditions in the camp, and the balance were put to death in the gas chambers or shot. For example, on November 1, 1943, 43,000 Jews were killed in Aktion Erntefest (Action Harvest Festival). The camp was liquidated in July, 1944, in the face of the Red Army advance.
Erik Lordahl, German Concentration Camps 1933-1945, History and Inmate Mail (2000). Referred to as Lordahl.
Feig, Hitlers Death Camps (1979)
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