Operation Reinhard in Kraków
| Aktion Krakau | |
|---|---|
Kraków Ghetto. German checkpoint during the anti-Jewish Operation Aktion Krakau in 1942 | |
| Also known as | German: Einsatz Krakau |
| Location | Occupied Kraków |
| Date | June 1942 - March 1943 |
| Incident type | Mass deportations to extermination camps |
| Perpetrators | Amon Göth, Julian Scherner, Odilo Globočnik and others |
| Participants | Nazi Germany |
| Organizations | Waffen-SS, Schutzstaffel, Order Police battalions, Sicherheitsdienst |
| Camp | Belzec extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp |
| Ghetto | Kraków Ghetto including other Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland |
| Victims | Over 11,000 |
| Memorials | Ghetto site and deportation point |
| Notes | The most lethal phase of the Holocaust. |
Operation Reinhard in Kraków, often referred to by its original codename in German as Aktion Krakau, was a major 1942 German Nazi operation against the Jews of Kraków, Poland. It was headed by SS and Police Leader Julian Scherner from the Waffen-SS. The roundup was part of the countrywide Aktion Reinhard (Operation Reinhard), the mass murder of Polish Jews in the so-called General Government under the command of SS und Polizeiführer Odilo Globočnik.