March 14th

On this day - March 14th 1943 - the Krakow Ghetto was liquidated

The Krakow ghetto was a Jewish ghetto in Poland. The ghetto was established in 1941 when the Jews in Krakow had to move into the ghetto. The liquidation of the ghetto started in June 1942 and lasted until March 14th 1943. The former inhabitants were sent to concentration camps where most of them met their death. In the final liquidation of the ghetto on the 13th and 14th of march was 8000 Jews who were deemed fit for work sent to Plaszow labour camp. Those who were considered unfit for work, about 2000 people, were killed. Those who was capture was sent to Auschwitz. The ghetto commander Amon Göth was hanged as a war criminal after the war ended. The ghetto is portrayed in the movie Schindler's List.