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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.
The 17th-century former synagogue is located in a neighborhood earmarked in 1495 by King John I Albert for the Jewish community, that was transferred from the budding Old Town. Devastated by Nazis during World War II, the former synagogue was used for profane purposes until 1991; and has subsequently operated as a Jewish museum since 1996. [2]
Jewish Ghettos in German-occupied Poland and Eastern Europe. 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).
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 synagogue served as a house of prayer until World War II when it was desecrated by Nazis in 1939. It was one of the city's most important synagogues as well as the main religious, social, and organizational centre of the Kraków Jewish community. [3] Since 1958, the building has been repurposed as a branch of the Historical Museum of Kraków.
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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 ...