On July 24th 1944, the Soviet army liberated Majdanek concentration camp on the Eastern Front of World War II. After that, the grounds of Majdanek concentration camp in Lublin, Poland were scattered with human bones and skulls of the dead.

　On July 24th 1944, the Soviet army liberated Majdanek concentration camp on the Eastern Front of World War II. After that, the grounds of Majdanek concentration camp in Lublin, Poland were scattered with human bones and skulls of the dead. It became the second largest death camp in Poland after Auschwitz

　　In the spring of 1944, the Nazi SS evacuated most of the prisoners to a further concentration camp to the west of Majdanek. In late July 1944, as the Soviet army approached Lublin, the remaining German staff of the camp abandoned Majdanek without completely dismantling it. The Soviet army first arrived at Majdanek on the night of July 22-23, and occupied Lublin on July 24. Majdanek, which was captured almost intact, was the first major concentration camp to be liberated. The Soviet authorities invited journalists to inspect the camp and evidence of the horrors that had taken place there.

　　In the Majdanek concentration camp, located on the outskirts of Lublin in German-occupied Poland, around 80,000 prisoners from all over Europe died. Jews, Roma, Sinti, homosexuals, the disabled and political dissidents were killed in the gas chambers. Others died from gunshot wounds, beatings, fire, starvation, or forced labor. The Soviet army liberated the camp on July 24, 1944, near the border between what is now Ukraine and Belarus. In the four years it was in operation, nearly half a million prisoners were sent there. It is estimated that 360,000 people died there from starvation, disease, execution by firing squad or in gas chambers. In 2005, the official estimate was 78,000 victims (59,000 of whom were Jews).