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: ORLA

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: białostockie

Województwo w 2007: białostockie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 63 km S of Bialystok

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 16th c.

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: From late 16th c.; in 1676 with 104 Jews (48%)

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 1167

Procent: 77.0

Holocaust:

Getto: July 1941 -autumn 1942 with c.2,000 imprisoned; deported to the Bialystok ghetto via the Bielsko ghetto.

Zaglada: Treblinka, Aug. 1943

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Czas powstania: mid-17th c.

Sposób uzytkowania: deserted
Cmentarze:

Czas powstania: New 19th c.

Ilosc nagrobków: c.40

Pomniki pamieci:
none was erected

Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-23