September 1939, the German forces defeated the Polish Army in two weeks.
Jews were ordered to register all family members and relocate to major cities. More than 10,000 Jews from the countryside arrived in Krakow daily.
THE JUDENRAT The Jewish Council comprised of 24 elected Jews personally responsible for carrying out the order of the regime in Krakow, such as drawing up lists for work details, food and housing. A place to lodge complaints.
MARCH 20, 1941 DEADLINE FOR ENTERING THE GHETTO
Edict 44/91 establishes a closed Jewish district south of the Vistula River. Residency in the walled ghetto is compulsory. All Jews from Krakow and surrounding areas are forced from their homes and required to crowd into an area of only sixteen square blocks.
"JEWISH TOWN" KRAKOW GHETTO WINTER '42
UNTERSTURMFUHRER AMON GOETH
PLASZOW FORCED LABOR CAMP UNDER CONSTRUCTION
LIQUIDATION OF THE GHETTO MARCH 13, 1943
Metalworks factory inside Plaszow forced labor camp.
CHUJOWA GORKA, APRIL, 1944
Department D orders Goeth to exhume and incinerate the bodies of more than 10,000 Jews killed at Plaszow and the Krakow Ghetto massacre.
ZWITTAU-BRINNLITZ, CZECHOSLOVAKIA OSKAR SCHINDLER'S HOMETOWN
AUSCHWITZ
FOR THE SEVEN MONTHS IT WAS FULLY OPERATIONAL, SCHINDLER'S BRINNLITZ MUNITIONS FACTORY WAS A MODEL OF NON-PRODUCTION.
DURING THIS SAME PERIOD, HE SPENT MILLIONS OF REICHMARKS TO SUSTAIN HIS WORKERS AND BRIBE REICH OFFICIALS.
Amon Goeth was arrested while a patient in a sanatorium at Bad Tolz. He was hanged in Krakow for crimes against humanity.
Oskar Schindler failed at his marriage and several businesses after the war.
In 1958, he was declared a righteous person by the council of the Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, and invited to plant a tree in the Avenue of the Righteous.
It grows there still.
The Schindler Jews today
Janek Dresner
Danka Dresner
Mordeci Wulkan
Ryszard Horowitz
Niusia Horowitz Little girl kissed at Schindler's birthday
Joseph and Rebeka Bau
Olek Rosner
Manci Rosner
Henry Rosner
Leopold Rosner and his wife Helen
Mila Pfefferberg
Leopold Pfefferberg
Mrs. ltzhak Stern
Helen Hirsch
Mrs. Emilie Schindler
There are fewer than four thousand Jews left alive in Poland today.
There are more than six thousand descendants of the Schindler Jews.
In memory of the more than six million Jews murdered