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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: CHOROSZCZ
 Name: Choroshtch
 State before 1939: Poland
 State in 1945: Poland
 Województwo w 1939: białostockie
 Województwo w 2007: białostockie
 Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 9 km E of Bialystok
 Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1556
 Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: As early as 16th c.; in 1807 with 199 Jews (30,3 %).
 Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
 Rok spisu: 1921
 Liczba: 450
 Procent: 18.7
 Holocaust:
 Getto: Resettled to the Bialystok ghetto.
 Zaglada: Treblinka, Aug.1943
 Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:
 Adres: Zlotorynska Str.
 Czas powstania: 1772 (wooden)
 Sposób uzytkowania: burnt during WW II
Cmentarze:
 Adres: Lyski road
 Czas powstania: 18th c. (new)
 Najstarszy nagrobek: 1894
 Ilosc nagrobków: 250
 Uwagi: some used to pave street
 Pomniki pamieci:
none was erected
 Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-07
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