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: PRZASNYSZ

Name: Proshnitz

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: warszawskie

Województwo w 2007: ostrołęckie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 106 km N of Warsaw

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 16th c.

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: estab. not later than 18th c.; in 1808 with 308 Jews (22,5 %).

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 2158

Procent: 36.0

Holocaust:

Getto: On Sept.25, 1939 most Jews were driven out to the Soviet zone

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Adres: Berka Joselewicza St

Czas powstania: New, 1886

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed 1939/40
Cmentarze:

Adres: Leszno Str.

Czas powstania: 18th c.

Ilosc nagrobków: 30

Uwagi: tombstones coll. from street pavements

Pomniki pamieci:
at the cemetery, made of the preserved tombstones

Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-08