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: WILNO

Name: Vilnius, Vilna

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Lithuania

Województwo w 1939: wileńskie

Województwo w 2007: capital

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 434 km NE of Warsaw

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1527

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Estab.1568; in 17th c. with 3,000 Jews (20%); Jerusalem of Lithuania (Jerushalaim de-Lita)

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 46559

Procent: 36.1

Holocaust:

Getto: Sep.6,1941- Nov.1943 with c35,000 imprisoned; upon liquidation 8,000 were deported to camps in Estonia

Zaglada: Executions:June24-Dec24,1941-50,000 at Ponary, 12,000 in the liquidation action

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Adres: Zydowska Str.

Czas powstania: Great,after 1633,sol

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WWII
Cmentarze:

Adres: Piramont Str.

Czas powstania: 1487-1830

Najstarszy nagrobek: sev.were moved

Ilosc nagrobków: none left

Uwagi: Concert hall built in 1955

Pomniki pamieci:
1. at Ponary (10 km) - site of mass executions (100,000 Jews); 2. Gaona Str., plate about ghetto

Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-28