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: PIŃSK

Name: Pinsk

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Byelorussia

Województwo w 1939: poleskie

Województwo w 2007: brestska obl.

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 179 km E of Brest Litovsk

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 16th c.

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: As early as 1506; major community; in 1648 with c1,000 Jews (20%); chassidic center

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 17513

Procent: 74.6

Holocaust:

Getto: April 1942 - Oct.29,1942; executions: Aug.4,1941 (8,000 people), Aug.7,1941 by Kozłowskowicze (3,000)

Zaglada: in the liquidation action: Oct.1942 (30,000), Nov.10,1942 (5,000)

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Czas powstania: 1640

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WWII
Cmentarze:

Czas powstania: New,18th c.

Ilosc nagrobków: none left

Uwagi: built-up area

Pomniki pamieci:
1. at Dobra Wola (execution of Oct.1942); 2. Puszkina Str., Jewish cemetery (execution of Nov.1942)

Telefon informacyjny w miejscowosci: Gmina Ortodoksyjna

Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-23