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: KLESZCZELE

Name: Kleshchel, Kleshtchel, Kleshchele

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: białostockie

Województwo w 2007: bialostockie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 77 km S of Bialystok

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 16th c.

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: In 1688 ban on Jewish settlement; new Jewish arrivals c.1800; in 1807 with 75 Jews.

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 621

Procent: 42.8

Holocaust:

Getto: 1942 -Nov.6, 1942 with c.1,000 imprisoned, some from Milejczyce, Nurzec; deported to the Bialystok ghetto.

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Adres: Przechodnia Str.

Czas powstania: 1881 (wooden)

Sposób uzytkowania: burnt in WW II
Cmentarze:

Adres: Czeremcha road

Czas powstania: 19th c.

Ilosc nagrobków: 10

Pomniki pamieci:
at the cemetery

Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-08