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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: 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
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