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: GDAŃSK

Name: Danzig, Gdansk, also Wrzeszcz, Sopot

State before 1939: Free City

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: autonomous city

Województwo w 2007: gdańskie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 339 km NW of Warsaw

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 14th c.

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Ban on Jewish settlement to 1713; Jews lived in suburbs; in 1884 they united in one community; ?

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1924

Liczba: 9230

Procent: 1.4

Holocaust:

Getto: In 1939 with 1,200 Jews; some deported to the Warsaw ghetto; the remaining to the Nazi camps.

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Adres: Boguslawskiego Str.

Czas powstania: Great 1887

Sposób uzytkowania: taken down,summer'39
Cmentarze:

Adres: Cmentarna Str.

Czas powstania: 17th c.

Najstarszy nagrobek: 1786

Ilosc nagrobków: 200

Pomniki pamieci:
1. Sopot, Dąbrowskiego Str., inscription at the site of synagogue destroyed in 1938.

Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-07