# Kraków <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Hebrew</td><td dir="rtl">קרקוב</td></tr> <tr><td>Yiddish</td><td dir="rtl">קראָקע (Kroke)</td></tr> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Kraków (Polish)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland (city with county rights)</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>50.06139 19.93722</td></tr> </table> <table class="place-meta place-eras"> <tr><th>Era</th><th>Town name</th><th>Country / jurisdiction</th></tr> <tr><td>to 1795</td><td>Kraków</td><td>Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth — historic royal capital; Kraków Voivodeship</td></tr> <tr><td>1795–1809</td><td>Krakau</td><td>Austrian partition — West Galicia</td></tr> <tr><td>1809–1815</td><td>Kraków</td><td>Duchy of Warsaw (from 1809)</td></tr> <tr><td>1815–1918</td><td>Kraków / Krakau</td><td>Free City of Kraków (1815–1846), then Austrian Galicia (Grand Duchy of Kraków)</td></tr> <tr><td>1918–1939</td><td>Kraków</td><td>Second Polish Republic</td></tr> <tr><td>1939–1945</td><td>Krakau</td><td>German occupation — capital of the General Government (Distrikt Krakau)</td></tr> <tr><td>present</td><td>Kraków</td><td>Poland — Lesser Poland Voivodeship</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Jewish settlement in Kraków dates to the 13th century, and from the 16th century Kazimierz, the historic Jewish quarter, was a renowned center of Talmudic learning. Under Nazi occupation most of the city's ~68,000 Jews were expelled in 1940, and in March 1941 a ghetto of 15,000–20,000 was established in Podgórze; deportations to Bełżec in 1942 and Auschwitz, with transfers to Płaszów, culminated in the ghetto's liquidation on 13–14 March 1943. <small>Sources: Wikipedia — Kraków, History of the Jews in Kraków, USHMM — Kraków</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Yosef Katz (b.1510)]] | Born 1510, Died 01/28/1591 | | [[Yitzchak Isserles (b.1520)]] | Born 1520, Died 09/06/1584 | | [[Eliezer Isserles (b.1530)]] | Born ~1530 | | [[Miriam Baila Isserles (b.1530)]] | Born ~1530, Died 09/08/1617 | | [[Moshe Isserles (b.1530)]] | Born 02/22/1530, Died 05/11/1572 | | [[Shprinza Eberles (b.1537)]] | Born ~1537, Died 01/06/1575 | | [[Sarah Jaffe (b.1539)]] | Born ~1539 | | [[Dinah Malka Schrentzel (d.1552)]] | Died 12/27/1552 | | [[Rivka Katz (b.1555)]] | Born ~1555 | | [[Moshe Landau (d.1561)]] | Died 03/12/1561 | | [[Yitzchak Charif (b.1590)]] | Born 1590, Died 10/13/1682 | | [[Shimon Wolf Isserles (d.1599)]] | Died 07/28/1599 | | [[Dreizel Isserles (d.1601)]] | Died 12/26/1601 | | [[Aryeh Leib Fishles Klausner (b.1610)]] | Born 1610 | | [[Avraham Segal (b.1625)]] | Born ~1625 | | [[Moshe Leizer's Isserles (d.1640)]] | Died 1640 | | [[Yehoshua Heschel Charif (b.1593)]] | Died 08/16/1648 | | [[Yom Tov Lipman Heller (b.1579)]] | Died 08/19/1654 | | [[Abraham Joshua Heschel (b.1595)]] | Died 10/21/1663 | | [[Yaakov Yehoshua Landau Falk (b.1680)]] | Born 12/19/1680 | | [[Rojza (d.1689)]] | Died 01/03/1689 | | [[Aryeh Leib Lowenstam (b.1690)]] | Born 1690 | | [[Issochor Berisz Babad (d.1690)]] | Died 09/22/1690 | | [[Naftali Zvi Hirsch Bochner (b.1715)]] | Born ~1715 | | [[Esther Bochner (b.1727)]] | Born ~1727 | | [[Miriam Shoshana Ashkenazi (b.1687)]] | Died 07/19/1753 | | [[Ernestine Ester Szyfra Lipschütz (b.1856)]] | Born 06/1856, Died 07/24/1932 | | [[Markus Mordechai Rottenberg (b.1872)]] | Born 04/10/1872 | | [[Sara Nettel Rottenberg (b.1874)]] | Born 03/28/1874 | | [[Yosef Yitzchak Rottenberg (b.1881)]] | Born 06/05/1881 | | [[Salomon Wolf Rottenberg (b.1883)]] | Born 10/13/1883–1889 | | [[Keila Scheindel Rottenberg (b.1891)]] | Born 08/26/1891 | | [[Frimeta Bochner]] | Died | | [[Krendel Isserles (d.1617)]] | Born , Died 09/18/1617 | | [[Yosef Isserles]] | Born | | [[Tzvi Hersh Landau Falk (d.1719)]] | Born | | [[Yehoshua Segal (d.1732)]] | Born | | [[Unknown Teomim]] | Born | | [[Yisrael Isser (d.1568)]] | Born 1490, Died 02/18/1568 |