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: CIECHANÓW

Name: Chechinov, Tshekhanov, Ziechenau

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: warszawskie

Województwo w 2007: ciechanowskie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 134 km N of Warsaw

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1569

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: From 17th c.; 50 families killed by the Chmielnicki Cossacks in 1648-49; in 1765 with 1,670 Jews.

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 4403

Procent: 36.8

Holocaust:

Getto: 1940-Nov. 1942; in Dec. 1941 1,200 Jews resettled to Nowe Miasto; executions upon the liquidation action.

Zaglada: Auschwitz, Nov. 1942

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed during WW2
Cmentarze:

Adres: New, Pultuska Str.

Czas powstania: late 19th c.

Ilosc nagrobków: 4

Uwagi: park

Pomniki pamieci:
at the old cemetery

Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-07