Kraków Ghetto

time. A list was compiled of 1200 names, which were provided by the Jewish Ghetto Police and all were sent to Brünnlitz rather than concentration camps and certain death. Hardly any useful artillery shells were produced at Schindler’s new factory, and he instead bought items of the black market and resold them as his own. When the rations provided by the SS were insufficient, Schindler began to spend a lot of time in Krakow where he was obtaining food and materials for his workers. Back in…

opened in 1939 and in just 5 years, it reached peak power with over 1,700 workers. Schindler’s factory became a safehouse for Jewish workers because of how lenient he was. In late 1944, Schindler’s workers were being liquidated from their nearby by ghetto (Krakow). To keep his business running, he hid the workers overnight in his factory and saved a great deal of…

but she went because she wanted to be with her mother. When they got there they saw about 700 Jews and kept them there for a few hours and then loaded them in trains. Ludmile and her mother were taken to Krakow. Ludmile was forced to live in the Krakow ghetto and her mom was sent to the Warsaw ghetto. She worked in a factory at the plazos labor camp for a businessman who was a friend of the German industrialist Oskar Schindler. On October 1944, Schindler attempted to save some Jewish workers by…

Hitler’s brutality grew towards jews, his opinion changed. He saw how Hitler was slowly but surely taking the humanity away from jewish people by making them wear the star of David, forcing them to be slaves in their own businesses and herding them into ghettos. As this progressed, he started allowing more and more jews to come work for him. From the way Oskar Schindler ran his factory, Emalia gained the reputation of becoming a safe haven for jews and a means of staying alive. Many wished to…

Poland as soon as Hitler invaded the country. When he arrived in Krakow, his first intention was to make a profit out of the…

Its population numbered in 3.5 Million. Krakows jewish population alone numbered in 50,000. When the Nazis invaded poland, all the jews were forced into crowded ghettos. They were marched to and from work under armed guard. Jewish property and businesses were either burned or sold by the S.S. to Nazi investors, one of whom was the fast talking, womanizing…

emotional, heartbreaking film because of its narrative, and film making techniques employed. This film on Oskar Schindler, a German businessman, who helped the Polish Jews of the Krakow Ghetto is far more interesting to watch than a documentary with still pictures voiced by a narrator going the timeline of Krakow Ghetto.…

After she graduated primary Maria Florek at a young age school, Maria moved to Krakow, Poland to live with her sister. Maria did not attend school any further than primary school because education during this time was not very important. College was also not very essential during this time. When Maria became an adult, she got married. Her husbands name was Brionsław Florek. He was born on May 23. 1918 in Krakow, Poland. He was a stove fitter and Maria, like her mother, was a housewife.…

war effort by mass producing pots for use in the war. He does this by employing Jews as workers, as they are less expensive to purchase than Poles are. As he makes more pots, Schindler turns a greater profit from his initial investment. When the Krakow ghetto is liquidated, Schindler’s position shifts to that of a bystander. He is not directly…

born in Paris on August 18, 1933, to Polish-Jewish family. When he was three years old, his family returned to Poland, settling in Krakow. During World War II, when Poland was invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany, Polanski's family was forced to live in the Krakow ghetto, a cramped section of the city where all Jews were forced to live. Polanski escaped from the ghetto when he was eight years old after his father cut a hole in a barbed-wire fence. Soon after, his parents were sent to…