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The Krakow Ghetto was formed on the 3rd March 1941, one of five major ghettos to be set up by the Germans in the General Government (the occupied but unannexed territories of Poland) in the course of World War II and the Holocaust. Life in the Crakow Ghetto became increasingly bloody and hellish as the Nazi programme of genocide intensified: subject to severe overcrowding, an acute lack of food and poor sanitation, those that didn’t perish from disease or malnutrition, were deported to surrounding concentration camps or simply murdered in the streets – an action which culminated in the Krakow Ghetto Massacre of March 1943. 

With the European Football Championship 2012 set to take place in Krakow Poland this summer, a debate has broken out in Germany over whether its national team should visit Auschwitz.

POLAND'S 1996 Nobel prize-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska, whose simple words and playful verse plucked irony and empathy out of life, has died aged 88.

At least 12 people injured and 2,000 evacuated overnight. The owner has been ignoring safety regulations for years and now he is to face charges.

Krakow Balice Airport: A civilian employee of a military unit at Balice airport has been arrested by police after threatening to blow up military aircraft. 

A contract to supply very fast trains, that will connect Warsaw, Katowice, Krakow and Gyndynia has been signed. 

More and more residents in Krakow choose former communist workers’ district Nowa Huta as a place of settlement. The process itself and reasons behind it are a subject of sociological research.

Tourist season is just about to start, yet Englishmen coming to Krakow are not those with bowler and walking cane

First successful eye cancer therapy sessions in Poland and Central Europe carried out recently in Krakow’s Nuclear Physics Institute

If tests confirm collected data, this will be the oldest archaeological finding of a burial place on Polish grounds