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
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