Convicted war criminal Amon Goeth is escorted by Polish guards to the courthouse in Krakow for sentencing.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 03410

Date: August 1946
Variant Locale: Krakau
Cracow
Photo Designation: PURSUIT OF JUSTICE -- Trials: By country -- Poland
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Leopold Page Photographic Collection

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
DEFENDANTS
GOETH, AMON
GUARDS
MARCHING
POLES
SOLDIERS/MILITARY (POLISH)
STREET SCENES
WAR CRIMINALS/TRIALS
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Leopold Page Photographic Collection
: Record last modified: 2004-01-22 00:00:00
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