Kraków ghetto.

This newsreel shows the forced relocation of Jews to the Kraków ghetto. Kraków was captured by German troops on 6 September 1939 during the invasion of Poland . As from November 1939 onwards, all Jewish residents aged twelve and over had to wear armbands, 53,828 of which were sold by the Jewish Council, the Judenrat.
On 3 March 1941, the head of the Kraków Administrative District, SS-Gruppenführer Otto Waechter , ordered the establishment of a Jewish housing settlement in Podgórze, a neighborhood in the southern part of the city. By 20 March 1941, all Jewish residents of Kraków had to move to this ghetto. The area measuring only around 24 hectares was cordoned off with a wall and barbed wire. Guards were posted to stop people getting in and out. 50,000 people were crammed into a district that previously had 3,000 residents – who even then had lived in overcrowded, poor, conditions.