On November 6 , 1939 , following the Nazi invasion of Poland , 184 professors were arrested and deported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp during an operation codenamed '' Sonderaktion Krakau '' . The university , along with the rest of Poland 's higher and secondary education , was closed for the remainder of World War II . Despite the university 's reopening after the cessation of hostilities in 1945 , the new government of Poland was hostile to the teachings of the pre-war university and the faculty was suppressed by the Communists in 1954 . By 1957 the Polish government decided that it would invest in the establishment of new facilities near Jordan Park and expansion of other smaller existing facilities . Sadly , as was typical for the period , construction work proved slow and many of the stated goals were never achieved ; it was this poor management and disregard for the university 's future that eventually led a number of scholars to openly criticise the government for its apparent lack of interest in educational development . On the other hand , a number of new buildings , such as the '' Collegium Biologicum '' , were built with funds from the legacy of Ignacy Paderewski
Sonderaktion Krakau
Sonderaktion Krakau
Jagiellonian University