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: JANÓW

Name: Janow Poleski, Ivanova

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Byelorussia

Województwo w 1939: poleskie

Województwo w 2007: brestska oblast

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 136 km E of Brest

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1620

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Under the Pinsk kahal; independent community from 2nd h. of 18th c.; in 1765 with 422 Jews.

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 1988

Procent: 64.8

Holocaust:

Getto: In June 1941 Germans shot 400 Jews; Ghetto: April-Sept. 1942 with c3,500 imprisoned; shot in nearby woods.

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WWII
Cmentarze:

Czas powstania: 17th c. ?

Ilosc nagrobków: no data

Pomniki pamieci:
atthe execution site, 3 km S of the town

Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-20