Deportation of Jews From Krakow (b/w photo)

German occupied Poland. A column of captive Jews march with bundles down the main thoroughfare in Krakow during the liquidation of the Krakow Ghetto. SS guards oversee the deportation action to the extermination camps. The Krak?w Ghetto was one of five major, metropolitan Jewish ghettos created by Nazi Germany in the new General Government territory during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. It was created for the purpose of exploitation, terror, and persecution of local Polish Jews, as well as the staging area for separating the able workers from those who would later be deemed unworthy of life.