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