Poland – A Holocaust awareness group has praised the Polish government for announcing plans to save the museum at Sobibor Concentration Camp from closure.
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On Wednesday the museum’s administrators said they could no longer remain open to visitors because they had not received enough funding this year from the regional government.
The site, where 250,000 Jews and non-Jews were murdered by the Nazis, receives around 20,000 visitors annually.
Following criticism over the closure, the Polish culture minister said they would arrange for Sobibor to be administered by the Majdanek museum. Majdanek, which is nearby in Lublin, was also used as a death camp by the Nazis.
There really isn’t much to see there. The nazis ym”s destroyed everything there so that there should be no evidence of what happened there. There are some artifacts on display but that can be moved to one of the other holocaust museums.