Title

Gas chambers, Majdanek concentration camp, outskirts of Lublin, Poland, c1940s(?). Artist: Unknown

Caption

Gas chambers, Majdanek concentration camp, outskirts of Lublin, Poland, c1940s(?). Majdanek was the first major Nazi concentration camp to be captured by the Allies in the Second World War. The Red Army took it almost intact on 22 July 1944. Although Majdanek was originally built as a forced labour rather than extermination camp, 78,000 Jews and other prisioners died there between 1941 and 1944.

Date

1942

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Keystone Archives

Reference

HRM19D84_166

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

48,7Mb (1,4Mb) / 16,4in x 11,5in / 4928 x 3456 (300dpi)

Keywords

Germany German country law crime Poland death door war location century camp murder horror concept killing evil B&W 1940s slaughter MONOCHROME concentration camp Forties gas chamber World War II World War two extermination WWII Nazi black & white black and white B W world war 2 Holocaust 20th century atrocity genocide Nazis Nazism war crime decade extermination camp Lublin murdering Second World War slaughtering TGN WW2 photograph Keystone Archives 2nd World War Unknown Majdanek photograph