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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: 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
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