This Sunday at 12 midday there will be a Remembrance March to mark the 62nd anniversary of the liquidation of the Cracow Ghetto.
The meeting point will be on Plac Bohaterow Ghetta in Podgorze outside the Pharmacy Under the Eagles (Apteka Pod Orlem) a place that was once a bastion of resistance to Nazi policy.
Prior to the war, there were approximately 70,000 Jews living in Cracow. Many Cracovian Jews were resettled in other Polish cities with the coming of Nazi rule, whilst the remaining 15, 000 were forced into a specially created ghetto in March 1941. Two years later, after continuous exploitation and sporadic brutality, the ghetto was cleared amidst bestial violence at the hands of the Nazi occupiers.
Like their fellows who were temporarily resettled in other cities, most of the inhabitants of the Cracow Ghetto met their fate in Hitler's Death Camps such as Auschwitz and Belzec. It is estimated that about 65,000 Jews from Cracow and its immediate environs perished during the war.
|