They marched to the ghetto wearing white armbands and a blue Star of David – across the Vistula River, to Podgórze. The Kraków Ghetto (1941-1943)
On March 3, 1941, Otto Wächter, governor of the Kraków district, issued a decree establishing a ghetto for the Jews still living in Kraków. Two weeks later, the district was sealed off. From then on, a dozen or so streets designated in a small section of Podgórze were to be the sole residence of the city's Jews. The ghetto existed for two years and was liquidated in March 1943. Propaganda Justifications Looking at the successive stages of the ghetto's creation in […]