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: BIELSK PODLASKI

Name: Byelsk Podlaski, Bilsk, Byelsk

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: białostockie

Województwo w 2007: białostockie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 51 km S of Bialystok

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 15th c.

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: As early as 1542; then Jews expelled, returned in early 19th c.; community from 1807.

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 2392

Procent: 50.3

Holocaust:

Getto: late 1941-Nov. 1942 with c.15,000 people, including surroundings; c.200 people were executed; remaining resettled to

Zaglada: Treblinka - Aug.1943

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Adres: Great Synagogue

Czas powstania: late 19th c.

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed WW II
Cmentarze:

Adres: Branska Str.

Czas powstania: 1807

Najstarszy nagrobek: 100

Pomniki pamieci:
At the cemetery, at the execution site

Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-07