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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: JEDWABNE
 Name: Yedwabne, Yedvabna
 State before 1939: Poland
 State in 1945: Poland
 Województwo w 1939: białostockie
 Województwo w 2007: lomzynskie
 Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 17 km NE of Lomza
 Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: In 19th c.
 Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
 Rok spisu: 1921
 Liczba: 757
 Procent: 61.9
 Holocaust:
 Getto: Pogrom on July 10, 1941: Poles murdered about 1,600 Jews burning them alive in a barn.
 Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:
 Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WW II
Cmentarze:
 Ilosc nagrobków: none left
 Pomniki pamieci:
at the site of the burnt barn (with untruthful inscription): removed in March 2001
 Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-20
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