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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: BRZEŚĆ n. Bugiem
 Name: Brest, Brest -Litowsk, Brisk
 State before 1939: Poland
 State in 1945: Byelorussia
 Województwo w 1939: poleskie
 Województwo w 2007: brestka oblast
 Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 41 km E of Biala Podlaska
 Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: mid-14th c.
 Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: 1388 - allowed to settle; community from late 15th c.; one of the main Jewish centres in Poland; in
 Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
 Rok spisu: 1921
 Liczba: 15630
 Procent: 52.9
 Holocaust:
 Getto: Autumn 1941 - Oct.15, 1942; prior to the ghetto a labour camp with 5,000 inmates, none survived;
 Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:
 Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed WW II
Cmentarze:
 Czas powstania: no data
 Pomniki pamieci:
no data
 Data aktualizacji: 2000-12-15
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