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Apr 21, 2024 · By 1600 Kraków had begun to decline. The Jagiellon dynasty came to an end, and by 1611 King Sigismund III Vasa moved his capital from Kraków to Warsaw, thus reducing Kraków’s importance. The devastating Swedish wars of the 17th century left the city economically impoverished.
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In 1944, during and following the Warsaw Uprising, the Germans deported many captured Poles frow Warsaw to Kraków. A common account popularized in the Soviet-controlled communist People's Republic of Poland, held that due to a rapid advance of the Soviet armies, Kraków allegedly escaped planned destruction during the German withdrawal.
By 1550, the population of metropolitan Kraków was 18,000; although it decreased to 15,000 in the next fifty years due to calamity. [183] [184] By the early 17th century the Kraków population had reached 28,000 inhabitants.
- 5 June 1257
- Poland
In June 2005, the Rabbi Moses Isserles Remuh Jewish Library, named for the famous 16th-century rabbi and scholar who lived in Kraków, opened in the city’s Jewish youth club. The library will house approximately 1,100 books, among them 500 in Yiddish, 200 in Polish and 250 in English. Young people will deliver books to elderly Jews.
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Nearly 80,000 Polish Jews had lived in Kraków since the thirteenth century. Kraków was freed by the Soviet troops at the end of World War II and would remain under Soviet control until the Soviet Union collapsed. Karol Wojtyla, Archbishop of Kraków, was made Pope in 1978 and would remain head of the Roman Catholic Church until 2005.
Vital Records - Krakow, Poland. This database contains Jewish birth, marriage, and death records from Krakow, Poland (in the Austrian province of Galicia before WWI), including Kazimierz and Podgórze (today, districts of Kraków). The information was transcribed and compiled by Prof. Dan Hirschberg from microfilmed and digitized records, the ...
Sep 7, 2018 · To make space for the ghetto, Polish families who lived in the neighborhood took residences in the dwellings that used to be occupied by the Jewish inhabitants of the city, now relocated to the newly established ghetto. Note that the city authorities crowded 15 000 people in an area that was previously inhabited by only 3 000 people. That’s ...
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