The Kraków Ghetto was one of five major metropolitan Nazi ghettos created by Germany in the new General Government territory during the German occupation...

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...

Jewish ghettos. A little over two months after the invasion of Poland, the new Gestapo chief of Kraków Bruno Müller had launched his Sonderaktion Krakau, shutting...

Kraków (Krakau) Ghetto Łachwa Ghetto, site of Łachwa Ghetto uprising, today Belarus Lida Ghetto, today Belarus Łódź (Litzmannstadt) Ghetto Łomża Ghetto Lubartów...

Megargee, Geoffrey P.: "KRAKAU-PLASZOW MAIN CAMP." The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945. Bloomington:...

assigned to the German embassy there. Schindler first arrived in Kraków (Krakau) in October 1939, on Abwehr business, and took an apartment the following...

by Nazi Germany at the start of World War II, the newly defined Distrikt Krakau (Kraków District) became the capital of Germany's General Government. The...

ISBN 978-1-4422-1316-6. Megargee, Geoffrey P. (2009). "Krakau-Płaszów Main Camp". Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945. Vol. I: Early Camps, Youth Camps...

The Holocaust in Poland was the ghettoization, robbery, deportation, and murder of Jews in occupied Poland, organized by Nazi Germany. Three million Polish...

that took place during his time there - including Aktion Krakau. He liquidated Kraków Ghetto by deporting its inhabitants to Auschwitz. His position afforded...

Tarnopol Ghetto), Stanisławów (now Ivano-Frankivsk, renamed Stanislau; see Stanisławów Ghetto), Drohobycz, and Sambor (see Drohobycz and Sambor Ghettos) and...

Police President of Essen who served as the first SS and Police Leader of Krakau (today, Kraków) during the Second World War. Convicted of corruption and...

Sącz Ghetto known in German as Ghetto von Neu-Sandez and in Yiddish as צאנז (Tsanz; Zanc) or נײ-סאנץ (Nay-Sants; Nojzanc) was a World War II ghetto set...

charge of Lublin concentration camp and the creation of the Częstochowa Ghetto, among others. Before his deployment to Poland, he was the mayor of the...

ghettos, execution sites and attacks Camps Mass shootings Białystok Bloody Sunday Bronna Góra Bydgoszcz Dynów Erntefest Kielce cemetery Aktion Krakau...

Polish professors and lecturers arrested by the Germans during Sonderaktion Krakau. 9–10 November: Mass arrests of 120 Poles, incl. teachers, students and...

by Hitler's decrees. The capital of the Gubernia was placed in Kraków (Krakau, Cracow) for security reasons. The occupying German elite was afraid of...

regional mass murder in Łódź, 1939; 1,500 people killed. Sonderaktion Krakau, mass arrest of intelligentsia, 183 professors from Jagiellonian University...

street. In 1943, in the mop up operation following the liquidation of Warsaw Ghetto, the hotel was used by Germans as bait for Jews hiding in Warsaw. There...

1939 of 180 professors from the university of Cracow in the Sonderaktion Krakau. The German occupiers subsequently launched AB-Aktion in May 1940—a further...

Jagiellonian University arrested in 1939 in the so-called Sonderaktion Krakau, an operation designed to eliminate Polish intelligentsia. Over 1,700 Polish...

als Gouverneur in Krakau und Lemberg und Rudolf Pavlu als Stadthauptmann in Krakau waren beteiligt an der Ermordung der Juden in Krakau und Lemberg, - Collection...

subdivided into four districts, Warsaw, Lublin, Radom, and Kraków (Distrikt Krakau). A German lawyer and prominent Nazi, Hans Frank, was appointed "Governor-General...

war, before being held legally accountable for their crimes. Sonderaktion Krakau: a 1939 Nazi round-up professors and academics of the Jagiellonian University...

Judenjagd was the German search for Jews who had escaped from the liquidated ghettos in Poland and were trying to hide among the non-Jewish population. Grabowski...

the original on 25 September 2020. Retrieved 3 June 2020. Sonderaktion Krakau, archived from the original on 29 September 2019, retrieved 9 February 2017...

city's cultural heritage. On November 6, during the infamous Sonderaktion Krakau 184 professors and academics of the Jagiellonian University (including Rector...

songwriter of the interwar period. He was shot by Germans in the Kraków Ghetto, occupied Poland, during the Holocaust. A number of his Yiddish songs are...

Police Leader in the Kraków District during the establishment of the Kraków Ghetto. He also was involved in the administration of the Nazi concentration camp...

is in constant touch with the security service (Sicherheitsdienst) in Krakau. The latter is in agreement that transport from Warsaw to Sobibor via Lublin...