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: DROHICZYN

Name: Drohiczyn nad Bugiem

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: białostockie

Województwo w 2007: białostockie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 114 km S of Bialystok

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: Turn of 14th c.

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: established in early 18th c.; in 1799 with 372 Jews (3,0 %).

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 814

Procent: 41.3

Holocaust:

Getto: July 1941 - Nov.2, 1942 with c.700 imprisoned; next resettled to the Bialystok ghetto.

Zaglada: Treblinka, Aug. 1943

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Adres: 9, Pilsudskiego Str.

Czas powstania: wooden, 19th c.

Sposób uzytkowania: burnt during WW2
Cmentarze:

Adres: at the riverside

Czas powstania: 19th c.

Ilosc nagrobków: 70

Pomniki pamieci:
none was erected

Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-17