Jagiellonian University celebrated the Academic Remembrance Day marking the anniversary of Sonderaktion Krakau

79 years ago, Kraków’s 183 professors and academic teachers, 155 working at the Jagiellonian University, were arrested and sent to concentration camps in Dachau and Sachsenhausen. On November 6^th, Jagiellonian University celebrated the Academic Remembrance Day marking the anniversary of Sonderaktion Krakau.

Delegations of Kraków higher education institutions laid flowers and lit candles at the graves of distinguished professors and academics while the UJ Collegium Novum hall hosted celebrations with participation of families of the detained professors, former underground students, rectors of Kraków academic institutions and the diplomatic corps. Homage was paid to all those who were killed in the Second World War and wrote the history of Poland’s oldest university.