During the mere 34 months of camp operation , more than 79,000 people were murdered at the main camp alone ( 59,000 of them Polish Jews ) . Some 18,000 Jews were killed at Majdanek on 3 November 1943 during the largest single-day , single-camp massacre of the Holocaust , named Harvest Festival ( totalling 43,000 with subcamps )
Harvest Festival
Aktion Erntefest
Anton Thernes