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: BIAŁA PODLASKA Name: Biala Delita, Biala Podlaska State before 1939: Poland State in 1945: Poland Województwo w 1939: lubelskie Województwo w 2007: bialskie Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 157 km SE of Warsaw Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: In 1621, 30 families settled. Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: In 17th c. under the Brest kahal jurisdiction, independent community from 18th c. Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
Rok spisu: 1921 Liczba: 6874 Procent: 52.9 Holocaust: Getto: 1940-1942 with c.8,400 people; in the barracks from Feb.1940 to Dec.1940. Zaglada: Sobibor, June 1942 (c. 3,000), remaining deported to Treblinka in Dec. 1942 Zachowane obiekty:Synagogi:
Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed during WW2Cmentarze:
Adres: Nowa Str. Czas powstania: 19th c.w. Ilosc nagrobków: none left Pomniki pamieci: Erected at the cemetery in June 1946, soon destroyed and replaced in 1947.
Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-07
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