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: POHOST ZAHORODNY

Name: Pogost Zagorodskiy

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Byelorussia

Województwo w 1939: poleskie

Województwo w 2007: brestska obl.

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 40 km NE of Pinsk

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: In 1897 with 593 Jews

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 530

Procent: 70.8

Holocaust:

Getto: Autumn 1941 - Sept.1942 with c.600 imprisoned.

Zaglada: All were shot on Aug.15, 1942

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WWII
Cmentarze:

Czas powstania: no data

Uwagi: executions in Aug.1941

Pomniki pamieci:
at the execution site by the Pinsk road (stone slab with hebrew and Byelorussian inscription)

Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-23