Dissonant Legacies: Engaging with Difficult University Heritage

The Arrest of Jagiellonian University Professors on November 6, 1939

Item

Title
The Arrest of Jagiellonian University Professors on November 6, 1939
Description
Sonderaktion Krakau refers to the Nazi operation carried out on 6 November 1939, when the German authorities arrested 183 professors and academic staff from the Jagiellonian University and other Kraków institutions. The scholars were deported to concentration camps, mainly Sachsenhausen and Dachau, where several of them died.
Format
93 x 120 cm
Place
Jagiellonian University Museum
Alternative Title
Sonderaktion Krakau
Rights Holder
Jagiellonian University
Subject
Painting
Date Created
1958
Item sets
Dissonant Heritage