Portrait of Amon Goeth while in Polish custody as an accused war criminal.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 09547

Date: 1946 August 16
Locale: Krakow, [Krakow] Poland
Variant Locale: Krakau
Cracow
Photo Designation: PURSUIT OF JUSTICE -- Trials: By country -- Poland
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Instytut Pamieci Narodowej

Biography: Amon Leopold Goeth (1908-1946), a native of Vienna, joined the Nazi party in 1932 and the SS in 1940. During the war he was sent first to SS headquarters in Lublin and subsequently to Krakow, where he was put in charge of the liquidation of the ghettos and labor camps of Szebnie, Bochnia, Tarnow and Krakow. From February 1943 until September 1944 Goeth held the position of commandant of the Plaszow concentration camp near Krakow. After the war he was extradited to Poland, where he was tried before the Polish Supreme Court. He was sentenced to death and executed in Krakow in 1946.
Keyword: CLOSE-UPS
COMMANDANTS
GOETH, AMON
PRISONERS
SS (SCHUTZSTAFFELN)
WAR CRIMINALS/TRIALS
Photo Source: Instytut Pamieci Narodowej

Copyright: Agency Agreement

Provenance: Archiwum Glownej Komisji Zbrodni Przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu Instytutu Pamieci Narodowej

Source Record ID: 60304
: Record last modified: 2006-12-13 00:00:00
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