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3 days ago · The Jews of Krakow had a long and rich history in the city dating back to the 13th century. By 1939, the Jewish population numbered around 64,000, constituting about 25% of the city‘s total population.[^1] Krakow was a thriving center of Jewish culture, scholarship, and religious life, with 90 synagogues and prayer houses.
5 days ago · On 1 January 1943 the Nazis turned the ghetto into a forced labour camp (Zwangsarbeitslager). Ghetto “A” was built, and the remaining northern part (ghetto “B”) housed those unfit to work. The border ran along today’s Galasa St. Both ghettos were liquidated on 4 September 1943. קו הגבול בין גטו “א” וגטו “ב לאורך רחוב גלאסה סומן הגבול
2 days ago · In March 1941 the Nazis formed a Jewish residential district in Bochnia, the ghetto. As a result of three liquidation actions (August 1942, November 1942 and September 1943) the ghetto was closed down and its inhabitants were executed or deported to Bełżec, Auschwitz, Płaszów and Szebnie camps.
2 days ago · Other. The History of the Holocaust A Timeline of Nazi Atrocities
5 days ago · Bukovina. Galicia, historic region of eastern Europe that was a part of Poland before Austria annexed it in 1772; in the 20th century it was restored to Poland but was later divided between Poland and the Soviet Union. During the Middle Ages, eastern Galicia, situated between Hungary, Poland, and the western principalities of Kiev and Volhynia ...
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3 days ago · v. t. e. Jewish history is the history of the Jews, their nation, religion, and culture, as it developed and interacted with other peoples, religions, and cultures. Jews originated from the Israelites and Hebrews of historical Israel and Judah, two related kingdoms that emerged in the Levant during the Iron Age.
3 days ago · The Jewish population was forced into the newly established Lublin Ghetto near Podzamcze. The city served as headquarters for Operation Reinhardt , the main German effort to exterminate all Jews in occupied Poland.
