Memorial in the Moiodova Street Cemetery to eighteen Jews who were murdered by Polish nationalists in Nowy Targ in April and May 1945.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 66208

Date: After 1945 May 02
Variant Locale: Krakau
Cracow
Photo Designation: BEARING WITNESS -- Memorials/Grave Stones
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Mark Webber

Event History: In late spring 1945, members of Gordonia secretly departed from Krakow for Czechoslovakia in the hope of reaching Palestine. They traveled some sixty kilometers to the town of Nowy Targ where they were met by members of an antisemitic Polish group, the N.S.Z. Five survivors murdered on April 20, 1945 and an additional thirteen were murdered on May 2, 1945. Upon hearing the news, other members of Gordonia retrieved their bodies and brought them back to Krakow. There they erected a memorial in their honor in the Jewish cemetery of Krakow.
https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005466.
Keyword: CEMETERIES
CLOAKROOM
CLOSE-UPS
GRAVES/MARKERS/TOMBSTONES
MEMORIALS/MONUMENTS
POGROMS
VIEWS
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Mark Webber
: Record last modified: 2018-04-30 00:00:00
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