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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: HANCEWICZE
 Name: Gantsevichi, Gancevici
 State before 1939: Poland
 State in 1945: Byelorussia
 Województwo w 1939: poleskie
 Województwo w 2007: brestska obl.
 Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 75 km N of Pinsk
 Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
 Rok spisu: 1921
 Liczba: 489
 Holocaust:
 Getto: 1941 - Aug.12, 1942
 Zaglada: 4,000 Jews were shot on Aug.12, 1942 (10 km off the town towards Hotynicz)
 Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:
 Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WWII
Cmentarze:
 Czas powstania: no data
 Pomniki pamieci:
obelisk at the execution site (the ashes of the murdered were buried at the cemetery)
 Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-17
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