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Place in Poland

What happened to the Jews in Lesser Poland

59 events, 1348 AD to 2009 AD

14th century

  1. 1348 AD Black Death massacre of Jews in Kraków · Kraków, Poland

15th century

  1. 1407 AD Blood libel in Kraków · Kraków, Poland
  2. 1407 AD Cracow riot against the Jews · Kraków, Poland
  3. 1453–1454 AD Capistrano's visit brings disaster to Kraków Jews · Kraków, Poland
  4. 1464 AD Violence against Jews in Cracow · Kraków, Poland
  5. 1494 AD Jews of Kraków ordered to move to Kazimierz · Kraków, Poland

16th century

  1. 1556 AD Student riots against Kraków Jews (1556) · Kraków, Poland
  2. 1560 AD Student riots against Kraków Jews (1560) · Kraków, Poland
  3. 1596 AD Thirteen Kraków Jews hanged on a false charge · Kraków, Poland

17th century

  1. 1631 AD Rabbis burned at the stake in Kraków · Kraków, Poland
  2. 1637 AD Four Kraków Jews tortured and executed · Kraków, Poland
  3. 1637 AD Violence against Jews in Kraków · Kraków, Poland
  4. 1642 AD Cracow Jews' export trade permission withdrawn · Kraków, Poland
  5. 1655 AD General massacre of Jews in Kraków · Kraków, Poland
  6. 1661 AD John Casimir grants Cracow Jews free trade rights · Kraków, Poland
  7. 1664 AD Druggist R. Matathia burned for blasphemy · Kraków, Poland
  8. 1682 AD Student riot against Kraków Jews · Kraków, Poland

19th century

  1. 1810 AD Nominal emancipation under the Duchy of Warsaw · Kraków, Poland
  2. 1810–1813 AD Kasher-meat tax made permanent in Duchy of Warsaw · Kraków, Poland
  3. 1815–1846 AD Special restrictive laws for Jews in the Free State of Cracow · Kraków, Poland
  4. 1850 AD Jews forced back to Kazimierz · Kraków, Poland
  5. 1861 AD Full emancipation of Kraków Jews · Kraków, Poland
  6. 1886 AD Lutcza Affair · Lutcza, Poland
  7. 1893 AD Catholic convocation proclaims economic boycott of Jews in Cracow · Kraków, Poland

20th century

  1. 1938 AD Pogrom in Dabrowa Tarnowska, Poland · Dąbrowa Tarnowska, Poland
  2. 1939 AD Jewish badge required in Cracow and the General-Government · Kraków, Poland
  3. 1940 AD First prisoner transport reaches Auschwitz-Birkenau · Auschwitz, Poland
  4. 1940 AD Polish Jews denied exit visas · Kraków, Poland
  5. 1940 AD The first prisoners arrive at Auschwitz · Auschwitz, Poland
  6. 1941 AD 40,000 Jews deported from Kraków · Kraków, Poland
  7. 1941 AD First gassings at Auschwitz using Zyklon B · Auschwitz, Poland
  8. 1941 AD Ghetto established in Kraków, Poland · Kraków, Poland
  9. 1941 AD Kraków Ghetto · Kraków, Poland
  10. 1941 AD Olkusz Ghetto · Olkusz, Poland
  11. 1942 AD 10,000 Nowy Sacz Jews deported to Belzec · Nowy Sącz, Poland
  12. 1942 AD 7,000 Kraków Jews sent to Belzec; 600 killed in city · Kraków, Poland
  13. 1942 AD Auschwitz-Birkenau prisoners used as slave labor at Monowitz · Auschwitz, Poland
  14. 1942 AD Birkenau Sonderkommando nearly done burning exhumed bodies · Auschwitz, Poland
  15. 1942 AD Fifty Kraków Jewish intellectuals deported to Auschwitz · Kraków, Poland
  16. 1942 AD First gassing selection at Auschwitz-Birkenau · Auschwitz, Poland
  17. 1942 AD Gorlice Jewish community deported to Belzec · Gorlice, Poland
  18. 1942 AD Hundreds of Jewish women and Dutch deportees gassed at Birkenau · Auschwitz, Poland
  19. 1942 AD Jewish women at Auschwitz-Birkenau chosen for medical experiments · Auschwitz, Poland
  20. 1942 AD Jewish women massacred at Budy labor camp · Budy, Poland
  21. 1942 AD June 6 German authorities begin deportations of Jews from the Krakow ghetto · Kraków, Poland
  22. 1942 AD Kraków ghetto liquidated; 6,000 murdered at Belzec · Kraków, Poland
  23. 1942 AD Massacre in Budy · Auschwitz, Poland
  24. 1942 AD Over 170,000 Jews killed in one week at three camps · Belzec, Poland
  25. 1942 AD Second gas chamber operating at Auschwitz-Birkenau · Auschwitz, Poland
  26. 1942 AD Seven thousand Kraków Jews murdered at Belzec · Kraków, Poland
  27. 1942 AD Zyklon B mass murder begins at Auschwitz-Birkenau · Auschwitz, Poland
  28. 1942–1943 AD Operation Reinhard in Kraków · Kraków, Poland
  29. 1943 AD Krakow ghetto dissolved · Kraków, Poland
  30. 1944 AD 1944: Transports of Jews from Plaszow Camp to Auschwitz · Płaszów, Poland
  31. 1944 AD Crematorium IV at Auschwitz destroyed in Sonderkommando uprising · Auschwitz, Poland
  32. 1944 AD November 1944: The Last Gassing at Auschwitz Takes Place · Auschwitz, Poland
  33. 1965 AD Frankfurt Auschwitz trials · Auschwitz, Poland
  34. 1965 AD Overall, only 789 individuals of the approximately 6,500 surviving SS personnel… · Auschwitz, Poland

21st century

  1. 2009 AD Kevin Myers attracted criticism for a 2009 article for the Irish Independent in… · Auschwitz, Poland

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