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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 ...
A 24-person Jewish board was formed in the city of Kraków and later in the Krakow Ghetto, when the ghetto was formed on March 3, 1941. [22] This Jewish Council was in charge of the inhabitants of the ghetto but received many orders from local Nazi officials, even though it retained some degree of autonomy. Some of its functions included ...
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.
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The OD were subordinated to the Judenrat (Jewish Council) of each ghetto. The Kraków OD, unlike many other Jewish Police forces, served as willing enforcers of Nazi policies and the Gestapo. [2] [3] Among other duties, they oversaw the liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto and helped transport Jews to Bełżec extermination camp. [4]
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
The Jewish cemetery, where the Nazis removed all but one of the tombstones, stands on the side of the hill at the eastern end of the camp, near the Grey house. Amon Göth's villa remains there. Another small monument, located near the opposite end of the site, stands in memory of the first execution of (non-Jewish) Polish prisoners in 1939.
Out of Poland's pre-war population of 34,849,000, about 6 million – constituting 17% of its total – perished during the German occupation. There were 240,000 military deaths, 3,000,000 Polish-Jewish Holocaust victims, and 2,760,000 civilian deaths (see World War II casualties backed with real research and citations).