Maidanek

[ mahyd-n-ek, mahy-dah-nek ]

noun

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

Example Sentences

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

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

In 1981, I reported the end of the last big war crimes trial, of nine defendants who worked at the Maidanek death camp where 250,000 people were killed.

From New York Times

This required the creation of six giant extermination camps in Poland: Auschwitz, Treblinka, Maidanek, Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor.

From Time Magazine Archive

The nine were all guards at the Maidanek concentration camp in Poland between 1941 and 1944.

From Time Magazine Archive