The easiest way to picture the significance of Poland for Jews before WW2 is to show a map speckled with hundreds of dots marking Jewish communities.
With all of them displayed at once our map would be illegible, yet all cities and, most of all, small towns once inhabited by Jews can be located. Beside their location, our database contains basic information on their history, number of Jews, Holocaust destruction, extant sites and memorials.
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Locality: SZARKOWSZCZYZNA

Name: Sharkovshchina

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Byelorussia

Województwo w 1939: wileńskie

Województwo w 2007: vitebska obl.

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 34 km N of Glebokie

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: In 1847 with 472 Jews

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 615

Holocaust:

Getto: July 1941-July 18, 1942 with c.2,000 imprisoned; upon the liquidation action some were deported to Glebokie

Zaglada: Executions: June 18,1942 on the Disna banks (800), July 18,1942 (400 people).

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WWII
Cmentarze:

Czas powstania: no data

Pomniki pamieci:
none was erected

Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-27