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16.03.1942| Hours before the launch of "Einsatz Reinhardt", chief of operation's staff, Hermann Höfle, summoned the final briefing on the liquidation of the #Lublin ghetto. SS, German security police & civil administration representatives met to discuss the deportations’ details. 
As per Fritz Reuter's summary note, Höfle informed that “Jews would undergo selections, Jews unfit for labor would be sent to Bełżec, Jews chosen for work would be concentrated in a big camp [Majdanek] & labor force could be applied for. Jews sent to Bełżec were never to return.”
The following night the German & Austrian SS and security police functionaries supported by Trawnikimänner entered the ghetto at Lublin’s Podzamcze, beginning its liquidation & operation “Reinhardt”: the central stage of #Holocaust that claimed the lives of ca. 2,000,000 victims.
Helena Pawluk née Błeszyńska worked for the Central Welfare Council – a charity that during WWII helped the prisoners of #Majdanek. When she learned that her family’s doctor & friend – a Polish Jew named Pryłucki – was detained in the camp, she helped him escape. #WomenofMajdanek
Pryłucki & Helena were soon caught by the Germans. Helena became an enemy of the Reich and a prisoner of #Majdanek herself, with a temporarily delayed death sentence for helping a Jew. She miraculously survived. Read the full story in our #Varia magazine: bit.ly/3g1fAwd
Help us commemorate the 80th anniversary of establishing the women's concentration camp at #Majdanek. The first females were deported to KL Lublin in October 1942 and were placed in only partially constructed barracks at field V. Discover their stories through #WomenofMajdanek
