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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.
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 summer of 1944 was a busy time for the Home Army (Armia Krajowa) – the largest underground organization in Poland. The Red Army was pushing the Wehrmacht towards the west, and the headquarters of AK decided to launch Operation Tempest (Plan Burza): a series of local uprisings, whose purpose was to seize control of cities and areas where German forces were preparing their defence against ...
The General Government (German: Generalgouvernement; Polish: Generalne Gubernatorstwo; Ukrainian: Генеральна губернія), formally the General Governorate for the Occupied Polish Region (German: Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete), was a German zone of occupation established after the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, Slovakia and the Soviet Union in ...
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The Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp was divided into multiple sections. [2] There was a separate area for camp personnel, work facilities, male prisoners, female prisoners, and a further subdivision between Jews and non-Jews.
Operation Reinhard in Kraków, often referred to by its original codename in German as Aktion Krakau, was a major 1942 German Nazi operation against the Jews of Kraków, Poland.
The branch of the Historical Museum of the City of Kraków at 2 Pomorska Street in the Silesian House was founded in 1981. Its primary purpose is to take care of historical places of tortures of many thousands of Poles during World War II – the former detention cells of Gestapo in Kraków.