Kazimierz
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Kazimierz is a former, from 1366 a independent town in 1800 incorporated into Kraków, Poland. Until 1954 the VIII quarter of the city, it is now part of the District I Old Town.
Wolnica Square, NE part of the former main market square of the city of Kazimierz and old city hall.
Former coat of arms of the city of Kazimierz
City hall
Józef Dietl Street northern part The former riverbed of the Old Vistula. Kazimierz on the left.
Kraków Ghetto
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The Kraków Ghetto, officially named the Jewish Residential District in Krakow, was one of five major metropolitan Nazi ghettos created by Germany in the new General Government territory during the Ger
Kazimierz
…northeastern part of the district was historically Jewish. In 1941, the Jews of Kraków were forcibly relocated by the German occupying forces into the Kraków Ghetto just across the river in Podgórze, and most did not survive the war. Today, Kazimierz is one of the major tourist attractions of Kraków and an important…
Jews forced to shovel snow in the street, circa 1940
Kraków area, late 1939. Captive Jews, assembled for slave labor, sit on an open field surrounded by new barbed wire fence
Construction of the ghetto walls, May 1941
Deportation of Jews from the ghetto, March 1943 (Salinarna Street, currently Lwowska Street)