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: OSTRÓW MAZ

Name: Ostrow Mazowiecka

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: białostockie

Województwo w 2007: ostrołęckie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 95 km NE of Warsaw

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 18th c.

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: In 1765 with 68 Jews; restrictions on Jewish settlementt up to 1862; in 1897 with 5,910 Jews (60,4%)

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 6812

Procent: 50.7

Holocaust:

Getto: Not established; some Jews were driven out to the Soviet zone in 1939; the rest were shot.

Zaglada: On Nov. 11, 1939 560 Jews were executed (shot) in the nearby woods.

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WW II
Cmentarze:

Adres: Wolodyjowskiego Str.

Czas powstania: New, 20th c.

Ilosc nagrobków: none left

Uwagi: ploughland

Pomniki pamieci:
at the execution site, by the Warsaw road

Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-08