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: SIERADZ Name: Seradz, Sheredz, Shiradz State before 1939: Poland State in 1945: Poland Województwo w 1939: łódzkie Województwo w 2007: sieradzkie Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 57 km SW of Lodz Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 15th c. Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Ban on Jewish settlement 1569-1771; in 1781 with 71 Jews; independent community from 1804. Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
Rok spisu: 1921 Liczba: 2850 Procent: 30.4 Holocaust: Getto: Spring 1940-Aug. 1942 with c.2,500 imprisoned; in winter 1941 1,000 people deported to the Zdunska Wola ghetto. Zaglada: Chelmno on Ner, Aug. 1942 Zachowane obiekty:Synagogi:
Adres: 7, Wodna Str. Czas powstania: 1819-1824 Sposób uzytkowania: officesCmentarze:
Adres: Zakladnikow Str. Czas powstania: 1812 Ilosc nagrobków: 10 Pomniki pamieci: at the cemetery plate with inscription to the memory of the executed inhabitants of Sieradz
Data aktualizacji: 2001-02-21
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