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: KNYSZYN Name: Knishin, Kniszyn, Knisin State before 1939: Poland State in 1945: Poland Województwo w 1939: białostockie Województwo w 2007: bialostockie Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 27 km NW of Bialystok Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1605 Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: In 1672 ban on Jewish settlement; Jews lived in the royal domain; community established c.1700. Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
Rok spisu: 1921 Liczba: 1235 Procent: 34.5 Holocaust: Getto: July 1941 -Nov.2, 1942 with c.2,000 imprisoned, some from Szczuczyn; deported to the Bialystok ghetto. Zaglada: Treblinka, Aug. 1943 Zachowane obiekty:Synagogi:
Adres: Grodzienska Str. Czas powstania: 1898 Sposób uzytkowania: taken down in 1986Cmentarze:
Adres: at the dam Czas powstania: 1786 Ilosc nagrobków: 700 Pomniki pamieci: inscription at the Town Hall
Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-08
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