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Before the German-Soviet invasion of 1939, Kraków was an influential centre for the 60,000–80,000 Polish Jews who had lived there since the 13th century. [2] Persecution of the Jewish population of Kraków began immediately after the German troops entered the city on 6 September 1939 in the course of the German aggression against Poland.
Beginning in 1941, all Jewish inhabitants of Kraków were ordered to relocate into Kraków Ghetto, the newly established ghetto situated in the Podgórze district, away from the predominantly Jewish district of Kazimierz. A German Labour Office was set up for those employed outside the Ghetto. At the beginning of 1942, the entire Jewish ...
Between October 1939 and July 1942 a system of ghettos was imposed for the confinement of Jews. The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest in all of World War II, with 380,000 people crammed into an area of 1.3 sq mi (3.4 km 2). The Łódź Ghetto was the second largest, holding about 160,000 prisoners.
The Kraków pogrom was the first anti-Jewish riot in post World War II Poland, [1] that took place on 11 August 1945 in the Soviet-occupied city of Kraków, Poland.The incident was part of anti-Jewish violence in Poland towards and after the end of World War II.
Originally intended as a forced labour camp, the Płaszów concentration camp was constructed on the grounds of two former Jewish cemeteries (including the New Jewish Cemetery). It was populated with prisoners during the liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto , which took place on 13–14 March 1943 with the first deportations of the Barrackenbau ...
Pages in category "Kraków in World War II" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Right after World War II a mikvah (ritual bath) was built at the side of the Tempel Synagogue, as the Remah Synagogue's mikvah was no longer able to serve. The mikvah at the Tempel Synagogue is for men only. On Józefa Street, there is the Kowea Itim le-Tora House of Prayer established in 1810. It was once owned by the Society for the Study of ...
Jankel Adler, Polish-Jewish painter; Adolf Behrman, Polish-Jewish painter; Henryk Berlewi, Polish-Jewish painter [31] Alexander Bogen, painter, sculptor, stage designer, book illustrator and a commander partisan during World War II; Aniela Cukier, Polish-Jewish painter; Karl Duldig, Polish-Jewish sculptor; Jacob Epstein, American-British sculptor