The most important dates in history of Krakow - 20th century

1918 Nov 11 - Krakow returns to Poland when the country regains the independence after 124 years of partitions

1939 Sep 1 - outbreak of WWII

1939 Sep 6 - German troops enter the city

1939 Nov 16 - Sonderaktion Krakau- inside of the building of Jagiellonian University almost 200 Krakow professors were arrested and send to Concentration Camps

1941 - Ghetto in Podgorze District created for Jews from Krakow’s area

1943 Mar 14 - the final liquidation of the Ghetto, Jews taken to Concentration Camp Płaszów

1945 Jan 11 - Russian and Polish troops enter Krakow

1951 - creation of Nowa Huta, the new town ( later changed into the district of Krakow) for the ‘New Order’ workers with huge steel mill that soon starts to pollute Krakow,

1978 - Krakow and Wieliczka Salt Mines enter new created World Heritage List by UNESCO

1978 Oct 16- Krakow Bishop Karol Wojtyla becomes Pope JPII

2004 - Czeslaw Milosz, Nobel Prize poet dies in Krakow

2007 - 750th anniversary of Krakow location