Krakow Ghetto Wall - Krakow, Poland
N 50° 02.682 E 019° 57.455
34U E 425363 N 5544121
Small sections of the wall still remain today, one part is fitted with a memorial plaque, which reads "Here they lived, suffered and perished at the hands of Hitler's executioners. From here they began their final journey to the death camps."
Waymark Code: WMQ19A
Location: Małopolskie, Poland
Date Posted: 11/28/2015
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The Kraków Ghetto was one of five major, metropolitan Jewish ghettos created by Nazi Germany in the new General Government territory during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. It was established for the purpose of exploitation, terror, and persecution of local Polish Jews, as well as the staging area for separating the "able workers" from those who would later be deemed unworthy of life. The Ghetto was liquidated between June 1942 and March 1943, with most of its inhabitants sent to their deaths at Belzec extermination camp as well as Plaszów slave-labor camp, and Auschwitz concentration camp, 60 kilometres distance.
In 1983, a commemorative plaque was raised, which reads in Hebrew and Polish: “Here they lived, suffered and died at the hands of the German torturers. From here they began their final journey to the death camps.”
(Text from wikipedia)
Physical Address:
27 Lwowska street
Krakow, Poland
Date Dedicated: 01/01/1983
Supporting Website: [Web Link]
Fee/Donation: .
Memorial Type: Monument/Plaque
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