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: BRZEŚĆ KUJAWSKI

Name: Brzesc Kujawski, Brest Kuyavsk, Brisk

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: warszawskie

Województwo w 2007: włocławskie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 14 km W of Wloclawek

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1558

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: In 1616 Jews owned 8 biuldings; in 1656 they were pogromed by Czarniecki's soldiers; in 1765 there w

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 794

Procent: 20.9

Holocaust:

Getto: 1941-April 1942

Zaglada: Chelmno on Ner, April 1942

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Czas powstania: 16th c. ?

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed WW II
Cmentarze:

Adres: 11 Listopada Str.

Czas powstania: 16th c. ?

Ilosc nagrobków: none left

Uwagi: swimming pool

Pomniki pamieci:
None was erected

Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-07