Zaglada Zydow W Krakowie

History of the Jews in Krakow during the Holocaust.
Biberstein (1889-1979), a Jewish physician from Kraków, organized and directed a hospital in the ghetto. After its liquidation, he was sent to Płaszów and later to Brünnlitz. During the war he wrote a diary which was lost in Brünnlitz. After the war he rewrote it, with additional information from various documents and from the testimonies of other Holocaust survivors. Describes, step by step, the Nazi occupation of Kraków, the founding of the ghetto, the deportations. The ghetto was liquidated in March 1943. The labor camp in Płaszów was founded in October 1942. Relates details about his own work there as a physician. In Brünnlitz he also worked as a physician, in the factory set up by Oskar Schindler with Jews he brought there from Płaszów. Pp. 179-265 describe Jewish institutions in the Kraków ghetto and their activities. Pp. 266-287 describe Jewish resistance activities in the Kraków district. In 1959 Biberstein immigrated to Israel