Jpost.com
A fire broke out Monday night at the Majdanek concentration camp barracks in Poland and destroyed ten-thousand pairs of shoes belonging to former prisoners, according to Majdanek Museum Director Tomasz Kranz.
The fire, which seriously damaged two-thirds of the wooden structure, occurred at midnight and took six hours to put out, a spokesman from the Lublin fire brigade reportedly said.
On Tuesday, Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev expressed support and assistance to Kranz following reports of the fire.
Shalev conveyed deep sorrow that such a historic landmark and invaluable artifacts suffered such damage.
“The damage to these irreplaceable items is a loss to a site that has such historical value to Europe, Poland and the Jewish people,” Shalev told Kranz.
Authorities have not been able to locate the cause of the fire yet are investigating all possibilities.
The site manager stated that the cause of the fire was unclear but it was likely that it started as a result of a power outage.
Majdanek concentration camp is located near the southeastern Polish city of Lublin.
Over 360,000 people, over half of them Jews, were murdered at the camp.
The Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp also suffered damage this year as heavy floods covered the site and nearly destroyed the memorial area.
#10. i was also there and you are right about the way the local goyim treat these places. they have city streets going right through the camps that people drive thru everyday and think nothing of it. this was definetly arson.
I visited Majdanek and was disgusted by the local goyim who were treating it as if it were a leisure park, fooling around, probably drinking etc. They are the descendants of those who collaborated with the Nazis and they’d do it again in 10 minutes.
MOSHIACH NEEDS TO COME..what’s happening!
foul play! 🙁
do more mitzvos to make up for this. thats what we CAN do.
fowl play….trying to destroy evidence.
possibly arson
This has to be a deliberate act. It’s awful and horrible that a piece of the evidence of the horror that took place during the holocaust has gone up in smoke.
They are slowly but surely getting rid of the evidence so that they can say that the Holocaust never happened!
it was arranged by ahamedinajed
this is pure antisemitisum
anti smitin