Jews, mainly the Jews of Krakau
Georgia
140,000
14/03/1943
The Krakow Ghetto in southern Poland.
Krakow is a major Polish city and came under Nazi rule in 1939. The city had a large Jewish population. In January 1941 the Krakow Jews were forced to live in a ghetto walled off from the rest of the city. Later, the inhabitants of the Krakow Ghetto were transported to Belzec, Plaszow and later to Auschwitz, which is only about 30 miles away. Oskar Schindler employed cheap labor from the Krakow Ghetto ... and this has made it particularly well known.
A bit over sixty thousand.
He lived in the First Ghetto.
Plaszow-Krakau concentration camp, or to the gas chambers.
He initially got them from the Krakau ghetto, but they were then moved to the Krakow-Plaszow camp.
"Maria lived in a ghetto neighborhood."
Deutsche EmailWARENFabrik is a company founded by Oskar Schindler that is credited with saving 1,100 Jewish lives during the holocaust by employing Jews who lived in the Krakow ghetto. He established this company with his Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern.
It's spelled Krakow, and it is in Poland. What happened to the Jews there during the Holocaust; they were first concentrated into a ghetto in the city. Then they were put in a concentration camp in the city's district of Plaszow, or to Auschwitz-Birkenau.