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: BEREZA KARTUSKA Name: Byaroza, Brezah, Kartoz Brezah State before 1939: Poland State in 1945: Byelorussia Województwo w 1939: poleskie Województwo w 2007: Breska obłast Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 100 km NE of Brest Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: Late 16th c.? Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Community as early as 17th c.; synagogue mentioned in 1629; in 1766 with 242 Jewish inhabitants Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
Rok spisu: 1921 Liczba: 2163 Procent: 61.3 Holocaust: Getto: Established in July 1942, divided into 2 parts, A for employed, B for "unproductive"; Jews of the B ghetto were executed Zaglada: Jews of the A ghetto, c.1800 people, were executed on Oct.15, 1942. Zachowane obiekty:Synagogi:
Sposób uzytkowania: burnt June 16,1941Cmentarze:
Adres: no data Pomniki pamieci: no data
Data aktualizacji: 2000-12-15
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