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: KLECK

Name: Kletsk, Kletzk, Kletzk

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Byelorussia

Województwo w 1939: nowogródzkie

Województwo w 2007: minskaja oblast

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 60 km E of Baranowicze

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1529

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: As early as mid-16th c.; major community in Lithuania; under the Pinsk kahal; in 1765 with 362 Jews

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 4190

Procent: 73.9

Holocaust:

Getto: 1941? - July 1942; 4,000 people executed in Oct.1941

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Czas powstania: 1796

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WW II
Cmentarze:

Czas powstania: late 18th c.

Ilosc nagrobków: none left

Pomniki pamieci:
by the Catholic cemetery, at the execution site.

Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-08