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
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