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: SUWAŁKI
 Name: Suwalki, Suvalk
 State before 1939: Poland
 State in 1945: Poland
 Województwo w 1939: białostockie
 Województwo w 2007: suwalskie
 Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 274 km NE of Warsaw
 Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: In 1808 about 44 Jews (3,5%)
 Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Estab. in 1820; Jewish district from 1823; in 1857 with 6,587 Jews (62,2%)
 Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
 Rok spisu: 1921
 Liczba: 5747
 Procent: 34.2
 Holocaust:
 Getto: Nov. 1939 deported to the Generalgouvernement (Kock,Lukow, and Biala Podlaska)
 Zaglada: Treblinka, 1942
 Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:
 Czas powstania: 1821
 Sposób uzytkowania: taken down in 1956
Cmentarze:
 Adres: Zarzeczna Str.
 Czas powstania: 1825
 Ilosc nagrobków: 20
 Uwagi: broken-tombstones monument
 Pomniki pamieci:
at the cemetery
 Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-02
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