Photographs of the Holocaust
Krakow Ghetto
- A segregated streetcar in Krakow.
- Portrait of the donor's uncle, Edward Heffner, holding his grandson Fred.
Resettled Into the Krakow Ghetto
- Jews from Sandomierz are transported by ferry across the Vistula River for resettlement in the Krakow Ghetto.
- Forced to relocate to the Krakow Ghetto, Jews move their belongings in horse-drawn wagons.
- Forced to relocate to the Krakow ghetto, Jews move their belongings in horse-drawn wagons.
- Jews move their possessions into the Krakow Ghetto by horse-drawn wagon.
- Jews move their belongings in horse-drawn wagons across a bridge over the Vistula River.
- Jews move their belongings into the Krakow ghetto in horse-drawn wagons.
Registration
- A Jew fills out a form to obtain an identification card in one of the ghetto offices.
- Jews obtaining work permits or ID cards in an administrative office in the Krakow Ghetto.
- Jews register for identification papers and work permits in the offices of the Jewish Council in the Krakow Ghetto.
Identification Papers
- German soldiers check the papers of Jews moving into the Krakow ghetto.
- German police or soldiers check the identification papers of a Jew in the streets of Krakow.
- A photo identification card, bearing the official stamps of the Krakow labor office and the General Government.
- A photo identification card, bearing the official stamps of the Krakow labor office and the General Government.
- A German policeman checks the identification papers of Jews in the Krakow Ghetto.
Sealing the Ghetto
- Polish laborers seal off the doors and windows of buildings on the outer periphery of the Krakow Ghetto.
- Jews at forced labor constructing the wall around the Krakow Ghetto.
- View of a portion of the wall enclosing the ghetto in Krakow-Podgorze.
- View of the gate at the Krakow ghetto.
- Jews at forced labor constructing the wall around the Krakow ghetto.
- View of an entrance to the Krakow ghetto.
- View of the arched entrance to the Krakow Ghetto.
Daily Life / Hardships
- Jewish children play in a courtyard in the Krakow Ghetto.
- A father walks with his son along a street in the Krakow Ghetto.
- A synagogue has been converted into a temporary shelter to house Jewish families forced to move into the ghetto in Krakow-Podgorze.
- A group of Jews chop up furniture to use as fuel in the Krakow Ghetto.
- German soldiers amuse themselves while they force Jews to dig ditches in an empty lot in Krakow.
- Two German soldiers sit inside a vandalized synagogue in Krakow.
- Jews wait in line on a streetcorner in the Krakow Ghetto.
- Jews selling off their possessions in the streets of the Krakow Ghetto.
- Jews arrested in the Podgorze neighborhood of Krakow are lined up along the pavement with their hands against the wall of a building.
Forced Labor
- A member of the German police kicks a Jew who is climbing onto the back of a truck during a round-up for forced labor.
- A group of Jewish men wearing armbands, shovel coal off the back of a truck.
- Jews wearing armbands are forced to shovel snow from the pavement in Krakow.
- German troops look on as a group of Jews --all but one of whom are women-- dig ditches in a fenced-in lot in Krakow.
- Jewish women are forced to clear snow from the streets of Krakow.
- A religious Jewish youth loads a large crate onto a cart in the Krakow Ghetto.
- Jews are forced to clear snow from streets of Krakow.
Deportation
- Close-up of an announcement affixed to a city kiosk, ordering the resettlement of Jews from the city of Krakow.
- Jews gathered at an assembly point await deportation.
- Jews assembled for deportation wait on the platform in the railway station for further transport.
- A family with children, part of a deportation transport, ascends the stairs to a platform in the railway station.
- An SS officer oversees a deportation action in the Krakow Ghetto.
- Jews assembled on the street with their bundles.
- After a deportation action, a group of Jewish men is assigned the task of clearing out the homes of the deported.
- A Jewish woman and her two young children await deportation from the Krakow Ghetto.
- A crowd of Jews fill the market square in the Krakow Ghetto.
- Jews from the Krakow Ghetto, who have been rounded-up for deportation, are crowded onto the back of a truck.
- A group of Jewish men are rounded-up and marched down a street in Krakow.
Liquidation
- Three elderly Jews walk arm-in-arm through the streets of Krakow during the final liquidation action of the ghetto.
- A column of Jews march with bundles down a main street in Krakow during the liquidation of the ghetto.
- A column of Jews marches through the streets of Krakow during the final liquidation of the ghetto.
- View of a major street in Krakow after the liquidation of the ghetto.
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