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: DROHICZYN

Name: Drogichin, Drohichin

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Byelorussia

Województwo w 1939: poleskie

Województwo w 2007: pinska obl.

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 69 km W of Pinsk

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: In 1766 with 510 Jews

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Holocaust:

Getto: 1941-1942 with c.4,000 imprisoned from Szereszew

Zaglada: 3816 Jews were shot at the cemetery

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WWII
Cmentarze:

Czas powstania: 18th c.

Pomniki pamieci:
1. obelisk at the cemetery at the execution site; 2. monument at the Zalesie woods at the execution

Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-17