Maidanek
| German concentration camp near Lublin, Poland. Originally established as a labour camp in 1939 it was converted to an extermination centre in early 1942. Although less well-known than Auschwitz, it was responsible for the deaths of about 1,380,000 Jews before being closed in the face of the advancing Soviets in 1944. |
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