Poles were not subjected to as harsh treatment as the Jews, but Poles were seen as “political enemies” and many were taken as political prisoners (the green triangle) to concentration camps - however there was no movement to exterminate Poles (as there was of Jews, gypsies, mentally/phsically disabled, etc)
My grandma is a non-Jewish Pole, living in Poland during ww2, although not in Krakow. Her whole family was put in a concentration camp and were just as likely to be sent to their death as everyone else. Her brother and dad were taken in the middle of the night - they came for the women later. My family was lucky - they survived.
Poles were not subjected to as harsh treatment as the Jews, but Poles were seen as “political enemies” and many were taken as political prisoners (the green triangle) to concentration camps - however there was no movement to exterminate Poles (as there was of Jews, gypsies, mentally/phsically disabled, etc)
My grandma is a non-Jewish Pole, living in Poland during ww2, although not in Krakow. Her whole family was put in a concentration camp and were just as likely to be sent to their death as everyone else. Her brother and dad were taken in the middle of the night - they came for the women later. My family was lucky - they survived.
Some died and some lived in the normal fortunes of war