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The Nazi flag is raised over the Krakow castle. Krakow, Poland, 1939. SS chief Heinrich Himmler (left) and Hans Frank, head of the Generalgouvernement in occupied Poland. Krakow, Poland, 1943. Jews move into the ghetto area. Krakow, Poland, March 1941.
- The Krakow
The Krakow ghetto in German-occupied Poland held over 15,000...
- The Krakow
22 cze 2021 · The Krakow ghetto in German-occupied Poland held over 15,000 Jews. Learn more about Krakow and the ghetto’s history during the Holocaust and World War II.
The Kraków Ghetto was one of five major metropolitan Nazi ghettos created by Germany in the new General Government territory during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. It was established for the purpose of exploitation, terror, and persecution of local Polish Jews.
2 lut 2020 · The exhibition People of Kraków in Times of Terror 1939-1945-1956, telling the complex history of our city, prepares the visitors to see the cells, where Polish people, fighting for Polish freedom and independence, were tortured and murdered. The exhibition is divided into three parts.
The ghetto, which functioned in Podgórze in 1941–43, bore witness to a savage and tragic stage in the extermination of Kraków’s Jews. The Jewish community of Kraków before the Second World War consisted of over 64,000 people, which accounted for 25% of the city’s population.
The ghetto, which functioned in Podgórze in 1941–43, bore witness to a savage and tragic stage in the extermination of Kraków’s Jews. The Jewish community of Kraków before the Second World War consisted of over 64,000 people, which accounted for 25% of the city’s population.
The exhibition is primarily a story about Kraków and its inhabitants, both Polish and Jewish, during World War Two. It is also a story about Nazi Germans – the occupiers who arrived here on 6 September 1939, brutally disrupting Kraków’s centuries-long history of Polish-Jewish relations.
