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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: OSTROŁĘKA
 Name: Ostroleka
 State before 1939: Poland
 State in 1945: Poland
 Województwo w 1939: białostockie
 Województwo w 2007: ostrołęckie
 Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 118 km NE of Warsaw
 Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1794
 Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: estab. in late 18th c.; in 1808 with 99 Jews (4,9 %); in 1897 with 4,564 Jews (57,3 %)
 Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
 Rok spisu: 1921
 Liczba: 3352
 Procent: 36.7
 Holocaust:
 Getto: In 1939/40 Jews were expelled to the Soviet zone
 Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:
 Czas powstania: 1916
 Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WW II
Cmentarze:
 Adres: Poznanska Str.
 Czas powstania: 1794
 Ilosc nagrobków: none left
 Uwagi: built up area
 Pomniki pamieci:
Poznanska Str., in front of the orphanage (the cemetery area)
 Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-08
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