Majdanek
Original main entrance into the concentration camp.
It was located in the Polish city of Lubin and opened October 1, 1941. The interior of the camp was divided into fields and compounds surround by a double row of barbed wire fence. It held 144 barracks sub divided into 5 sections including special camps for children and extermination. One of the sub-sections held to gas chambers in wooden barracks and later a brick building was built to house the gas chambers. It started out as a prisoner of war camp holding Polish political prisoners, polish Jews and soviet POW's.
About 130,000 Jews were taken to Majdanek between 1942-1943 as part of the final solution. They were gassed with Zyklon-B gas like at Auschwitz. They were also killed in mass shootings. In April 1942, 2,800 Jews were killed in a mass shooting. On November 3, 1943 17,000 Jews were machine-gunned to death as part of the 'Erntefest Aktion'. 500,000 people went through Majdanek and about 200,000 died, mostly Jews.