 In the spring of 1941 there were about 32,000 Jews in Radom.Katzmann remained there until Operation Barbarossa.The city of Radom received Jews expelled from other locations in Poland including the Jewish inmates of the Kraków Ghetto because Kraków – according to the wishes of "Gauleiter" Hans Frank – was to become the "racially cleanest" city of the General Government territory to serve as its German capital.