“Aktion Reinhardt” was the code name of the SS for the planned mass murder of the Polish Jews. The mass murder took place in the extermination camps Bełżec, Sobibór and Treblinka between spring 1942 and autumn 1943. Up to 1.9 million Jews from Poland and other parts of Europe as well as numerous Roma and Romnija were murdered, most of them asphyxiated with exhaust fumes from motor engines.

The exhibition was created in 2013 by the State Museum Majdanek on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of “Aktion Reinhardt”.