What happened to Polish people in krakow during the holocaust?
Filed Under (History) by admin on 14-06-2008
Tagged Under : Holocaust, Krakow, Polish People, Russians
Magdali asked:
did they get killed too, what if they were russian?
i was asking about russians living in krakow
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did they get killed too, what if they were russian?
i was asking about russians living in krakow
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The Holocaust was largely aimed at killing Jewish people, not Polish people in general. (Gays, priests and other groups were also targeted.)
If you were living in Krakow in World War II and were not Jewish, life was very different under Nazi rule, but you weren’t under constant threat of death.
Jews living in Krakow were forced to move into a ghetto, then were sent off to various work and death camps where many did die.
As for Russians, I don’t understand your question. Are you asking if there were Russians living in Poland or are you asking what happened to Russians in World War II?
Krakow was turned into a ghetto like the Warsaw Ghetto for Jews, gypsies, homosexuals and political problems for be slave laborers for the Nazis. Any Russians that were anywhere were considered sub-human by the Nazis and sujected to the same. The city was closed off and the Jews (any Jews Russian or otherwise) were herded into the walled off or closed off city and Krakow was known for slave labor camp. In 1943 the SS evacuated Krakow for the final
liquidation as the Jews were moved into the concentration camps. Krakow was not a concentration camp. People did die there, but from disease, starvation, SS guards brutality, not working, but it was not a death camp like Auschwitz.
They weren’t russian, but they did get killed.
Generally the Polish people went about life as normally as possible except in the vicinity of the Jewish ghetto. Krakow was one of the cities not bombed by the allies or attacked by the Russians so it was not significantly damaged during the war.
I don’t know if the Poles had an attitude toward the Russians, but I doubt that there were many Russians in Krakow at that time and those that were there probably blended into the greater population quite well and avoided any problems.
There is an interesting monument in Warsaw to all the different types of people that the Germans eliminated along with the Jews. There were many.
Later the Russians were viewed as liberators as they swept westward. At least the Russians viewed themselves as liberators. I am not sure what the attitude of the Poles was. Probably mixed.
The Russians erected many liberation monuments to the Soviet army all over Eastern Europe. Most are an obelisk with a gold Russian star on top. You will see photos of them in most city squares if they have not been taken down since the fall of the wall.
My Great Uncle and his wife, four children were all arrested and sent to the camps, they never returned. They were from what is now Melpolisky, Poland and were Polish.
i did a report on this last year. If they where handicaped or homosexual , gypsies, ect, they did some sick things to them.(burned them alive turned them to soap, put them in rape camps) but the rolish weren’t targeted directly.if they where gay, gypsy, or handicaped they might be killed.But other than that they where just invaded by the nazis. for a little more facts for intrest, they think hitler did the whole genocide thing because they think he had siphilis.(std). he was not even arian(blonde hair blue eyes). he was just nuts damn brilliant but nuts.