Operation Reinhard in Kraków
1942-43 German mass murder of Polish Jews in Kraków, Poland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For a different Aktion Krakau,[1] a parallel 1939 operation against academics in occupied Kraków see Sonderaktion Krakau.
Further information: The Holocaust in Poland and Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland
Operation Reinhard in Kraków, often referred to by its original codename in German as Aktion Krakau, was a major 1942 German Nazi operation against the Jews of Kraków, Poland. It was headed by SS and Police Leader Julian Scherner from the Waffen-SS. The roundup was part of the countrywide Aktion Reinhard (Operation Reinhard), the mass murder of Polish Jews in the so-called General Government under the command of SS und Polizeiführer Odilo Globočnik.
Quick Facts Aktion Krakau, Also known as ...
Aktion Krakau | |
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Also known as | German: Einsatz Krakau |
Location | Occupied Kraków |
Date | June 1942 - March 1943 |
Incident type | Mass deportations to extermination camps |
Perpetrators | Amon Göth, Julian Scherner, Odilo Globočnik and others |
Participants | Nazi Germany |
Organizations | Waffen-SS, Schutzstaffel, Order Police battalions, Sicherheitsdienst |
Camp | Belzec extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp |
Ghetto | Kraków Ghetto including other Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland |
Victims | Over 11,000[2] |
Memorials | Ghetto site and deportation point |
Notes | The most lethal phase of the Holocaust. |
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