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: POZNAŃ

Name: Poznan, Posen

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: poznańskie

Województwo w 2007: poznańskie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 303 km W of Warsaw

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1367

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: As early as 14th c.; central community in Great Poland; in 1600 with 1,700 Jews; in 1780 with 2,250

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 2088

Procent: 1.2

Holocaust:

Getto: On Dec.12, 1939 all Jews were deported to the Generalgouvernement; labour camps for Jews at the road construction.

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Adres: 17, Wroniecka Str.

Czas powstania: 1907

Sposób uzytkowania: swimming pool
Cmentarze:

Adres: Glogowska Str.

Czas powstania: 1804

Ilosc nagrobków: none left

Uwagi: area occupied by the International Fair

Pomniki pamieci:
at the former stadium, the site of the labour camp in 1940-43

Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-08