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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: PRUŻANA
 Name: Pruzana, Pruzhany, Pruzin
 State before 1939: Poland
 State in 1945: Byelorussia
 Województwo w 1939: poleskie
 Województwo w 2007: brestska obl.
 Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 91 km E of Brest Litovsk
 Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: mid-15th c.
 Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: 563 with 11 Jewish families; estab.in 17th c.; late in 17th - 571 Jews(42%) in 1847 - 2,583 Jews
 Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
 Rok spisu: 1921
 Liczba: 4152
 Procent: 65.6
 Holocaust:
 Getto: Sept.22,1941 - Jan.1943 with c.15,000 imprisoned, some from Bialystok, Bialowieza, and Narewka
 Zaglada: Execution on Nov.2, 1942; Treblinka, Jan. 1943 (c10,000 people)
 Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:
 Sposób uzytkowania: power station
Cmentarze:
 Czas powstania: no data
 Pomniki pamieci:
at the execution site: Slobudka village
 Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-26
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