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Maidanek

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[mahyd-n-ek, mahy-dah-nek] / ˈmaɪd nˌɛk, maɪˈdɑ nɛk /

noun

  1. a Nazi concentration camp in eastern Poland, near Lublin.


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When Maidanek, the first of the Nazi concentration camps liberated by the Soviets, was taken over in July 1944, Lieutenant General Nikolai Bulganin insisted that journalists be brought in.

From New York Times Sep. 4, 2021

In August 1944, major American newspapers covered the Soviet discovery of Maidanek, an extermination camp near the Polish city of Lublin.

From New York Times Apr. 28, 2020

When the Soviet army liberated Maidanek and Auschwitz and the other Nazi death camps in Poland, the birth of Israel in 1948 became an inevitability.

From Time Magazine Archive

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