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: SEJNY
 Name: Senya
 State before 1939: Poland
 State in 1945: Poland
 Województwo w 1939: białostockie
 Województwo w 2007: suwalskie
 Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 30 km E of Suwalki
 Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 17th c.
 Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: From 17th c.; in 1808 with 674 Jews (56,6%)
 Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
 Rok spisu: 1921
 Liczba: 661
 Procent: 29.3
 Holocaust:
 Getto: In late Nov. 1942 Jews were deported to the camps in Lithuania
 Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:
 Adres: 41, Pilsudskiego Str
 Czas powstania: 1857
 Sposób uzytkowania: exhibition hall
Cmentarze:
 Adres: 1 Maja Str.
 Czas powstania: 19 th c.
 Ilosc nagrobków: 20
 Pomniki pamieci:
none was erected
 Data aktualizacji: 2001-02-23
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