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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: 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
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