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: KOSSÓW

Name: Kosow Poleski, Kossow, Kosova, Kossovo

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Byelorussia

Województwo w 1939: poleskie

Województwo w 2007: brestska obl.

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 88 km NE of Kobryn

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Estab.not later than 19th c.; in 1847with 985 Jews; in 1897 with 2,028 Jews (65,6%)

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 1473

Procent: 60.5

Holocaust:

Zaglada: Mereczowszyna woods (1,5 km W of the town) sierpień 1942(1,4 tys osób)

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WWII
Cmentarze:

Czas powstania: no data

Pomniki pamieci:
none was erected

Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-21