maidanek in a sentence

1. This report of the Security Police mentions also the name of Maidanek.

2. Q. When did you hear for the first time of the concentration camp Maidanek?

3. "I lived in Lublin and from there I was sent to Maidanek in the beginning of 1942.

4. The extermination of Jews in Maidanek became known to me during the summer of 1944.

5. Up to now the word Maidanek has always been mentioned in connection with extermination of Jews.

6. Maidanek, Belsen, Auschwitz, Sonia Sabbatani… The difference is only a matter of scale and legality.”

7. I quote the corresponding passages from the Polish-Soviet Extraordinary Commission's report on Maidanek.

8. Did you at that time realize that this Maidanek was identical or probably identical with that camp near Lublin?

9. "There are concentration camps at Auschwitz and Maidanek where likewise the mass murder of Poles was carried out systematically."

10. The concentration camp system was introduced in the Government General by the establishment of the notorious Treblinka and Maidanek camps.

11. When the camp was taken over by the Maidanek Concentration Camp new guards were sent to our camp, but there was no difference between them and the previous ones.

12. In Maidanek, I would be unable to find a quick way to freedom in the new surroundings and it would take me a long time to become acquainted with new people and new conditions.

13. How can one reconcile this part of your report which mentions Auschwitz and Maidanek, where mass murder took place, with your statement that you heard of Maidanek only at the end of 1944?

14. (a) Murders and ill-treatments at concentration camps and similar establishments set up by the Germans in the Eastern Countries and in Eastern Germany including those set up at Maidanek and Auschwitz.

15. Thus, during the whole of the war I never had any news from abroad about the concentration camps, until one day your armies, that is, the Soviet Russian armies, captured the camp at Maidanek in Poland.

16. The Scharfuhrer, a German master carpenter from Bohemia, whom I have already mentioned, came to me for advice about the construction of a four-story observation tower of the type he had seen in Maidanek.

17. Unlike Auschwitz and Mauthausen—the other two concentration camps where Austrians made up a significant part of the security guards—no Austrian criminal proceedings concerning Maidanek ended with a conviction.

18. MR. COUNSELLOR SMIRNOV: Consequently, we are to understand?I refer to the text submitted to you?that in May 1943 you heard of the mass murder of Poles in Maidanek, and in 1944 you heard of the mass murder of Jews?

19. In the same year, Pablo Picasso, inspired by photographs and possibly by a 1944 film on the liberation of Maidanek, attempted an entirely different solution to the problem of depicting the corpses in "The Charnel House".