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
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)
Płaszów, officially named Płaszów concentration camp near Kraków, was a German Nazi concentration camp operated by the SS in the area of Podgórze and Wola Duchacka near Płaszów, a southern suburb of K
Kraków Ghetto
…Reinhard. The ghetto was liquidated between June 1942 and March 1943, with most of its inhabitants deported to the Belzec extermination camp as well as to Płaszów slave-labor camp, and Auschwitz concentration camp, 60 kilometres (37 mi) rail distance. Before the German-Soviet invasion of 1939, Kraków was an influential centre for…
German concentration camp in 1942
The balcony of Amon Göth's villa in Płaszów. Although Göth was ruthless and would shoot at prisoners, he could not do so from this balcony as the terrain and the layout of the camp infrastructure precluded this. He used to step outside to hunt humans, with his Tyrolean hat marking his intentions. It was the signal for seasoned prisoners to attempt to hide.
Monument to the Victims of Fascism (erected in 1964)
The sign at the south entrance to the Płaszów camp area