THE KRAKOW GHETTO 1940 - 1943

THE CAMP

• On September 6, 1939 the Germans occupied this camp Krakow.
• Approximately 90,000 Jews lived in this city.

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• In October and December 1939, searches were conducted in every house by the SS and ordinary German soldiers. During searches a curfew would be imposed on all Jews, and the people showing themselves in the streets or on balconies would be shot on sight.

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• The Polish laborers sealed off the doors and windows of buildings on the outer boundary of the ghetto to keep the Jews inside.

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• The Germans spent their time by watching and forcing Jews to dig ditches in an empty lot.

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• Jews were arrested in the Podgorze neighborhood of Krakow and got lined up along the pavement with their hands against the wall of a building.

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• 150,000 people suffered imprisonment in this camp. There was Jews of Krakow and from Poland’s other cities as well as Hungary, Czechoslovakia, France, Belgium, and Romania.
• More than 80,000 of the Plaszow inmates died before the end of World War II

SITED SOURCES

• http://www.krakow-info.com/plaszow.htm
• http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ghettos/krakow/krakow.html