[1] In the same year, some 1,300 m3 of surface soil mixed with human ashes and fragments of bones were collected and arranged into a large mound (since turned into a mausoleum).

[3] By comparison, the Auschwitz concentration camp liberated a half a year later, on 27 January 1945, was first declared a national monument in April 1946, but handed over to Poland by the Red Army only in 1947.

[10] 18,400 Jews were killed at Majdanek on 3 November 1943, during the largest single-day, single-camp massacre of the Holocaust,[11][12] named Harvest Festival (totalling 43,000 with two subcamps).

[13] In 1969, on the 25th anniversary of the Majdanek liberation, a stunningly emotional monument dedicated to Holocaust victims was erected on the grounds of the former Nazi extermination camp.

[15] The Museum is also in possession of the archives left behind by the SS after a failed attempt at their destruction by Obersturmführer Anton Thernes, tried at the Majdanek Trials.

[3] On 2 September 2009 the Majdanek Museum was awarded the Gold Medal Gloria Artis for outstanding contributions to Polish culture by Deputy State Secretary Minister Tomasz Merta.