'Paper-made tombstones' for a Jewish community nearly wiped from memory

A historian from a Krakow university has discovered and recorded the names of nearly ten thousand Jews whose graves were destroyed by the Nazis to make way for Plaszow concentration camp. A memorial site and a museum are to open there next year

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The restored tombstone of ultra-Orthodox educator Sara Schenirer (1883-1935), founder of the Beit Yaakov ultra-Orthodox girls' schools. Credit: KL Plaszow Museum

A historian from a Krakow university has discovered and recorded the names of nearly ten thousand Jews whose graves were destroyed by the Nazis to make way for Plaszow concentration camp. A memorial site and a museum are to open there next year

Ofer Aderet

11:09 AM • April 16 2026 IDT

Jewish physician Dr. Antonia Taube Kragen died in 1933, at age 43. She was buried in one of the two Jewish cemeteries in Krakow's Podgórze district. Three weeks before she died, she managed to publish an article about tuberculosis, the disease that took her life. Nowadays, nothing remains of her tombstone.

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