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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: 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
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