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: KAŁUSZYN Name: Kaluszyn, Kalushin State before 1939: Poland State in 1945: Poland Województwo w 1939: warszawskie Województwo w 2007: siedleckie Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 63 km E of Warsaw Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 18th c. Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Estab. not later than 18th c.; in 1827 with 145 Jews (80 %); wooden synagogue burnt in 1889. Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
Rok spisu: 1921 Liczba: 5033 Procent: 82.2 Holocaust: Getto: In 1941 c.2,000 Jews were shot at the cemetery. Zaglada: Treblinka, Sept. 1942. Zachowane obiekty:Synagogi:
Adres: Warszawska Str. Czas powstania: 19th c. Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WW IICmentarze:
Adres: by the Catholic one Czas powstania: New 19th c. Ilosc nagrobków: none left Uwagi: one at the church front Pomniki pamieci: at the church front
Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-08
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