![The Nazi flag is raised over the Krakow castle. Krakow, Poland, 1939. [LCID: 01594]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/b48c19f9-bc36-4514-8e61-41a742e013b3.jpg "The Nazi flag is raised over the Krakow castle. Krakow, Poland, 1939. [LCID: 01594]")
The Nazi flag is raised over the Krakow castle. Krakow, Poland, 1939.
Item View![SS chief Heinrich Himmler (left) and Hans Frank, head of the Generalgouvernement in occupied Poland. [LCID: 01589]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/bf8e5f72-1124-4bd5-96f4-d7908b5c0c56.jpg "SS chief Heinrich Himmler (left) and Hans Frank, head of the Generalgouvernement in occupied Poland. [LCID: 01589]")
SS chief Heinrich Himmler (left) and Hans Frank, head of the Generalgouvernement in occupied Poland. Krakow, Poland, 1943.
Item View![Residents of the Krakow ghetto walk past a German truck loaded with furniture confiscated from Jews. [LCID: 49002]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/ae0c1933-24de-47b5-8733-ce39a1d05e3b.jpg "Residents of the Krakow ghetto walk past a German truck loaded with furniture confiscated from Jews. [LCID: 49002]")
Residents of the Krakow ghetto walk past a German truck loaded with furniture confiscated from Jews. Krakow, Poland, ca. 1941.
Item View![Jews in the Krakow ghetto unload furniture, to be used as kindling, next to a pile of coal. [LCID: 49023]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/66bff5d8-c125-4e7b-9ba9-42b4bbd00d0c.jpg "Jews in the Krakow ghetto unload furniture, to be used as kindling, next to a pile of coal. [LCID: 49023]")
Jews in the Krakow ghetto unload furniture, to be used as kindling, next to a pile of coal. Krakow, Poland, ca. 1941.
Item View![Shimshon and Tova Draenger, members of the underground in the Krakow and Warsaw ghettos and partisans in the Wisnicz Forest. [LCID: 90253]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/6c29eb78-5871-429a-b221-7d7f599aab2c.jpg "Shimshon and Tova Draenger, members of the underground in the Krakow and Warsaw ghettos and partisans in the Wisnicz Forest. [LCID: 90253]")
Shimshon and Tova Draenger, members of the underground in the Kraków and Warsaw ghettos and partisans in the Wisnicz Forest. Krakow, Poland, date uncertain.
Item View![Prisoners receive meager food allocations at the Plaszow camp. [LCID: 03409]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/8accc322-de56-46fc-b985-517b805ef038.jpg "Prisoners receive meager food allocations at the Plaszow camp. [LCID: 03409]")
Prisoners receive meager food allocations at the Plaszow camp. Krakow, Poland, 1943 or 1944.
Item View![Amon Goeth (front left), commandant of the Plaszow camp, under escort to the courthouse in Krakow for sentencing. [LCID: 03410]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/f0bc2cc9-a6b4-43f3-aaf1-e3e97b81b270.jpg "Amon Goeth (front left), commandant of the Plaszow camp, under escort to the courthouse in Krakow for sentencing. [LCID: 03410]")
Amon Goeth (front left), commandant of the Plaszow camp, under escort to the courthouse in Kraków for sentencing. He was sentenced to death at his postwar trial on war crimes charges. Kraków, Poland, August 1946.
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![Jews move into the ghetto area. Krakow, Poland, March 1941. [LCID: 50363]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/540d5aed-33a4-4f60-a613-756e0f803bcb.jpg "Jews move into the ghetto area. Krakow, Poland, March 1941. [LCID: 50363]")
![A section of the Plaszow camp. Plaszow, Poland, 1943-1944. [LCID: 03406]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/5782d1d8-d0b3-42a8-a7e1-c6a1767ef03a.jpg "A section of the Plaszow camp. Plaszow, Poland, 1943-1944. [LCID: 03406]")
![A member of the German SS supervises the boarding of Jews onto trains during a deportation action in the Krakow ghetto. [LCID: 02159]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/fd900ea9-e9ec-405d-a12a-d425ddeee0b5.jpg)