A Jewish woman is stripped naked and driven past the eyes of German soldiers at the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp on the outskirts of Kraków in southern Poland. This photograph was submitted as a document for the Nuremberg Trials. Those found guilty were stripped naked and shot to death in a trench on the hillside. The warden, Armon Goethe, was found guilty of murder and was hanged on September 13, 1945, at Montelpitch Prison in Krakow.
It was a concentration camp run by the SS of Nazi Germany. Most of its prisoners were Polish Jews who had been targeted for purges by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. Many prisoners died as a result of executions, forced labor, and poor conditions in the camp. They died. While the main function of the concentration camps was forced labor, the camps were also places of mass murder of prisoners as well as those brought from outside. Compared to other camps, women and children were in larger numbers, but received male and unrest treatment. The main targets were the elderly and the sick. Since there were no gas chambers or crematoria, the mass killings were carried out by shooting. The maximum number of prisoners confined exceeded about 20,000, and thousands were killed, mostly by gunfire. To destroy evidence, mass graves were opened and bodies were exhumed and burned. The concentration camps were liberated by the Soviet Red Army on January 20, 1945 in this area.
The Krakow Ghetto was set up by Nazi Germany in one of Poland's largest cities. It was established to exploit, terrorize, and persecute local Polish Jews during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. The ghetto was later used as a segregated area to segregate able-bodied workers for deportation to the extermination camps of Operation Reinhard. The Kraft Ghetto was liquidated between June 1942 and March 1943. Prisoners who were able to work in the Kraft ghetto were forcibly taken to the Krakow-Płasz concentration camp. Most of the other Judaizers were deported to Belzec extermination camp and Płasz forced labor camp and Auschwitz concentration camp for massacre.
