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: LESZNO

Name: Lissa, Lisa

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: poznańskie

Województwo w 2007: leszczyńskie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 69 km SW of Poznan

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: mid-16th c.

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: From 17th c.; in 1656 with 400 Jewish families; in 18th c. it was the third community in Poland

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 299

Procent: 1.8

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Adres: 31, Narutowicza Str.

Czas powstania: 18th c.

Sposób uzytkowania: under repair
Cmentarze:

Adres: Estkowskiego Str.

Czas powstania: 17th c.

Najstarszy nagrobek: 1701

Ilosc nagrobków: fragments

Uwagi: Judaic Museum in the burial house

Pomniki pamieci:
none was erected

Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-08