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: MIŃSK MAZ. Name: Minsk Mazowiecki, Nowominsk State before 1939: Poland State in 1945: Poland Województwo w 1939: warszawskie Województwo w 2007: siedleckie Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 42 km E of Warsaw Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: late 18th c. Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Ban on Jewish settlement up to late 18th c.; in 1927 with 260 Jews; in 1936 - pogrom Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
Rok spisu: 1921 Liczba: 4130 Procent: 39.3 Holocaust: Getto: 1940 - Aug.22, 1942 with c.5,000 imprisoned, some from Kalisz and Kałuszyn; executions (1,300 people). Zaglada: Treblinka, Aug. 1942 Zachowane obiekty:Synagogi:
Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WW IICmentarze:
Adres: Cicha Str. Czas powstania: 1870 Ilosc nagrobków: 500 Pomniki pamieci: 1. at the cemetery; 2. inscription at Siennicka Str., where 220 Jews were burnt on Jan.22,1943
Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-23
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