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: TUREK

Name: Tirek, Torek

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: łódzkie

Województwo w 2007: konińskie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 25 km SE of Konin

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1st half 19th c.

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: In 1808 with 33 Jews (4,3%); in 1857 with 653 Jews (13,6%)

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 2678

Procent: 26.9

Holocaust:

Getto: Spring 1940 -Oct. 1941 with c.5,000 imprisoned from the district; next deported to the Kowala Panska ghetto

Zaglada: Chelmno on Ner, 1942

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Adres: 1, Zeromskiego Str.

Czas powstania: mid-19th c.

Sposób uzytkowania: cinema
Cmentarze:

Czas powstania: 19th c.

Ilosc nagrobków: 100

Uwagi: moved to Chelmno and Konin

Pomniki pamieci:
1. at the Chelmno death camp 2. inscription at the synagogue building

Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-08