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