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Kraków

50.06°N 19.93°E2 titles

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What happened here

From October 1939 Kraków was the capital of the German General Government, ruled by Hans Frank from Wawel Castle. On 6 November 1939 the Germans arrested 183 professors of the Jagiellonian University. Jews were forced into a ghetto in Podgórze in March 1941, which was liquidated on 13 and 14 March 1943; survivors went to the Płaszów camp, and Oskar Schindler shielded more than a thousand at his enamel factory.

Films and series set in Kraków

  1. Must-watch

    Schindler's List

    1993 · Film

    Here in the story

    1. City

      Schindler charms SS officers, takes over an enamelware factory and hires Jewish workers through the accountant Itzhak Stern.

    2. City

      From a hill above the ghetto, Schindler watches the SS clear it street by street and notices a little girl in a red coat.

  2. Katyń

    2007 · Film

    Here in the story

    1. City

      Back in Kraków, Anna sees her father-in-law, a professor, arrested by the Germans together with his colleagues.

    2. Home

      After years of German lists and then Soviet silence, the family finally learns the truth, at a price.

Events at Kraków

  1. Holocaust

    Liberation of Auschwitz

    Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz, the largest Nazi camp, where about 1.1 million people were murdered, most of them Jews. The date is now International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

    Read more on Wikipedia

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