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: WIŻAJNY

Name: Wizajny, Vizhon

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: białostockie

Województwo w 2007: suwalskie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 35 km N of Suwalki

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: In 1786 with 35 Jewish families (25%); in 1827 - 836 Jews (52%); in 1857 - 1,146 Jews (57%)

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 332

Procent: 23.8

Holocaust:

Getto: no data

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WWII
Cmentarze:

Czas powstania: 19th c.

Ilosc nagrobków: none left

Uwagi: school grounds

Pomniki pamieci:
none was erected

Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-14