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: OSZMIANA

Name: Oshmyany, Asmena, Oshmena, Oshmina

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Byelorussia

Województwo w 1939: wileńskie

Województwo w 2007: grodnenska obl.

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 152 km NE of Lida

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: From 18th c.; in 1765 with 376 Jewish taxpayaers; in 1847 with 1,460 Jews

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Holocaust:

Getto: Oct.1941 - April 28,1943; some deported to the Wilno ghetto.

Zaglada: Execution in Oglejow (500 people) on Oct.27,1942; Ponary

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Czas powstania: 1902

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WWII
Cmentarze:

Czas powstania: no data

Pomniki pamieci:
no data

Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-23