Operation Reinhard in Kraków
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. It was headed by SS and Police Leader Julian Scherner from the Waffen-SS. The roundup was part of the countrywide Aktion Reinhard, the mass murder of Polish Jews in the so-called General Government under the command of SS und Polizeiführer Odilo Globočnik.
Kraków Ghetto. German checkpoint during the anti-Jewish Operation Aktion Krakau in 1942
Deportation of Jews from the Kraków Ghetto, March 1943. The final ghetto 'liquidation' action
Julian Scherner was a Nazi Party official and a high-ranking member in the SS of Nazi Germany. During World War II, he served as the SS and Police Leader of Kraków, Germany-occupied Poland.
Julian Scherner (centre), with Karl Hermann Frank (left)