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Bernard Offen (born 17 April 1929) in Kraków, Poland is a Holocaust survivor.He survived the Kraków Ghetto and several Nazi concentration camps.. His parents, two brothers, and one sister lived in the Podgórze area of Kraków which in March 1941 became the Kraków Ghetto.
The ghetto was accessible by three entrances: one near the Podgórze Market, Limanowskiego Street, and the Plac Zgody. [9] The Kraków Ghetto was a closed ghetto meaning that it was physically closed off from the surrounding area and access was restricted. [16] Within other German-occupied areas, open ghettos and destruction ghettos existed. [16]
In 1940, one year later, the Kraków Ghetto, a Nazi ghetto, was created during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. [7] His immediate family, grandparents, cousins, and aunt were moved into one small apartment there. [7] [8] In 1941, his father was killed in a round-up. [9]
According to survivors' testimony, before World War II Spira was an impoverished glazier and carpenter who practiced Orthodox Judaism. [1] [2] [3] He was known to wear a full beard and kapoteh. [4] In the early days of the Krakow ghetto, Spira served as a low level clerk for the Judenrat. [2]
Roma Ligocka (born Roma Liebling, 13 November 1938) is a Polish writer, and painter.. She was born in a Jewish family in Kraków a year before World War II. During the German occupation of Poland, her family was persecuted by the Germans - her father was incarcerated, first in the Płaszów and then Auschwitz concentration camps.
Cracow Monsters (Polish: Krakowskie potwory) is a Polish supernatural thriller television series created by Netflix and based on Polish mythology. [1] [2] The show is directed by Kasia Adamik and Olga Chajdas. [3] It was written by Anna Sienska, Gaja Grzegorzewska, and Magdalena Lankosz. [4] The series was released on 18 March 2022 on Netflix. [5]
Mieczyslaw Staner was born in the Kraków suburb of Podgórze, and was educated first in a state Primary School and later in a Hebrew Gymnasium on Podbrzezie street in Kazimierz, the oldest Jewish Quarter in Kraków, which was founded by the late Dr. Hilfstein.
Itzhak Stern (25 January 1901 – 30 January 1969) was a Polish Jew and a Holocaust survivor, who worked for Sudeten-German industrialist Oskar Schindler and assisted him in his rescue activities during the Holocaust. After World War II, Stern moved to Israel.