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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: 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
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