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: KALISZ Name: Kolish State before 1939: Poland State in 1945: Poland Województwo w 1939: łódzkie Województwo w 2007: kaliskie Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 246 km W of Warsaw Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 12th c. Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: As early as 13th c.; the Statute of Kalisz of 1262; in 1765 with 809 Jews; in 1804 with 2,113 Jews Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
Rok spisu: 1921 Liczba: 15566 Procent: 34.9 Holocaust: Getto: In Dec. 1939 Jews mostly deported to the Generalgouvernement; the rest to a camp at Kozminek, then to Lodz. Zaglada: Chelmno on Ner, Treblinka, 1942 Zachowane obiekty:Synagogi:
Adres: Zlota Str. Czas powstania: New, 1911 Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WW IICmentarze:
Adres: 21, Podmiejska Str. Czas powstania: New, 1896 Ilosc nagrobków: 200 Uwagi: tombstones from old cemetery Pomniki pamieci: at the new cemetery
Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-08
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