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: KOBRYŃ

Name: Kobryn, Kobrin

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Byelorussia

Województwo w 1939: poleskie

Województwo w 2007: brestska obl.

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 49 km E of Brest Litovsk

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1514

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: In 1563 with 23 Jews; many killed in Chmielnicki massacres of 1648-49;

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 5431

Procent: 66.2

Holocaust:

Getto: Summer 1941 - Oct.15,1942 with c4,500 imprisoned, some from Hajnowka & Bialowieza; on June 2,1942 2,000 people shot at B

Zaglada: The remaining (4,500 people) executed on Oct.14, 1942, 4km off the town

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WWII
Cmentarze:

Czas powstania: no data

Pomniki pamieci:
By the Diwin road, at the execution site

Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-20