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: WYSOKIE LIT.
 Name: Vysokoye, Visoke Litovsk
 State before 1939: Poland
 State in 1945: Byelorussia
 Województwo w 1939: poleskie
 Województwo w 2007: brestska obl.
 Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 35 km NW of Brest Litovsk
 Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 16th c.
 Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: From 17th c.; in 1650 meeting of the Council of Lithuanian Jews; in 1897 with 2,870 Jews (85%)
 Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
 Rok spisu: 1921
 Liczba: 1902
 Procent: 90.6
 Holocaust:
 Zaglada: Autumn 1941 - 3,600 Jews were executed (shot)
 Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:
 Czas powstania: 1607
 Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WWII
Cmentarze:
 Czas powstania: New 1898
 Ilosc nagrobków: none left
 Pomniki pamieci:
none was erected
 Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-16
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