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: KOŁO

Name: Kolo, Koil, Kuyl

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: łódzkie

Województwo w 2007: konińskie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 177 km W of Warsaw

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1429

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Estab. not later than 16th c.; in 1765 with 256 Jews.

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 5159

Procent: 45.1

Holocaust:

Getto: Dec. 1940 - Dec.1941 with c.2,000 imprisoned.

Zaglada: Chelmno on Ner, Dec. 1941

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Adres: off the market

Czas powstania: 1765

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed after 1946
Cmentarze:

Adres: Old, Slowackiego St.

Czas powstania: 16th c. ?

Ilosc nagrobków: none left

Uwagi: partly occupied by social club

Pomniki pamieci:
1. at the cemtery site; 2. at the synagogue sitei

Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-08