Raebijer, Krakaú [Kraków] 1939

A street view of an elborately decorated doorway in Kraków, Poland in 1939. The three people depicted in front of the doorway appear to be in deep conversation. The woman is wearing a cornette. It is likely she is a nun with the Daughters of Charity who were active in Poland during the Second World War. This doorway still stands as it is depicted here.

In 1941, the German's established a ghetto in Kraków that housed approximately 15,000 to 20,000 Jewish people, many of whom were forced laborers in factories. The ghetto was liquidated between 1942 and 1943 with most of the inhabitants sent to surrounding concentration camps. Kraków is also known for the enamelware factory owned by Oskar Schindler, who brought the Jewish-owned factory in 1939 and established Deutsche Emalwarenfabrik Oskar Schindler (German Enamelware Factory Oskar Schindler) where some of the Jewish people that resided in the ghetto were laborers.