June 10, 1942:
- "One thousand Jews are deported from Prague, Czechoslovakia, to the East, where they are murdered."
- Kraków/Plaszów
"Home to one of the oldest and most important Jewish communities in Europe, Kraków, Poland, was transformed by the Nazis into a place of terror.
The city was occupied by the Germans in September 1939 and declared the capital of the Generalgouvernement of Poland.
All anti-Jewish legislation for the region was issued from Kraków.
"Terror campaigns against the Jews began in December 1940.
Jewish property was seized, synagogues were burned, and thousands of Jews were expelled from their residences.
A formal ghetto that measured 656 X 437 yards was established in March 1941.
Jews from the neighboring communities were packed into the ghetto; by the end of the year, 18,000 Jews were imprisoned in Kraków.
The overcrowding and deplorable sanitary conditions caused many deaths.
Those pictured were hanged for railway sabotage.
"Deportations from Kraków to the Belzec and Auschwitz death camps began in May 1942 and continued until March 1943.
On March 13, 1943, 2,000 Jews were transferred to the Plaszów forced-labor camp.
Located on the outskirts of Kraków, the Plaszów camp was run by the notorious Amon Goeth, a psychopathic killer who took pleasure in shooting Jews for sport from his balcony.
The Kraków Ghetto and Plaszów labor camp provided the setting for the film Schindler's List."
"A Jewish policeman from the Warsaw Ghetto removes a dead baby.
Note the emaciated condition of the corpse.
Jews lived in the ghetto on starvation rations, and the sick, young, and infirm were the first victims of famine and disease.
Infants, many of whom were born dead, were particularly susceptible to these conditions."