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: PŁOŃSK

Name: Plonsk

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: warszawskie

Województwo w 2007: ciechanowskie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 69 km NW of Warsaw

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1446

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: In 16-18th c. under the Ciechanow kahal; independent community from 19th c.; in 1808 with 2,801 Jews

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 4460

Procent: 48.4

Holocaust:

Getto: Sept. 1940 -Dec.5,1942 with c.12,000 imprisoned from the whole area; in July 1941 deportation of 1,200 people to the cam

Zaglada: Auschwitz, Dec. 1942

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Adres: Warszawska Str.

Czas powstania: 17th c.

Sposób uzytkowania: taken down after '55
Cmentarze:

Adres: Warszawska Str.

Czas powstania: 18th c.

Ilosc nagrobków: none left

Uwagi: car factory

Pomniki pamieci:
at the border of the destroyed cemetery

Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-08