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
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