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