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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: 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
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