The retreating Germans did not have time to destroy the facility . During its 34 months of operation , more than 79,000 people were murdered at Majdanek main camp alone ( 59,000 of them Polish Jews ) and between 95,000 and 130,000 people in the entire Majdanek system of subcamps . Some 18,000 Jews were killed at Majdanek on November 3 , 1943 , during the largest single-day , single-camp massacre of the Holocaust , named Harvest Festival ( totalling 43,000 with 2 subcamps )
Harvest Festival
Aktion Erntefest
Majdanek State Museum