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: WILEJKA

Name: Vilejka, Vileyka

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Byelorussia

Województwo w 1939: wileńskie

Województwo w 2007: minska obl.

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 22 km N of Molodeczno

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: In 1897 with 1,327 Jews (37,8%)

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 710

Procent: 20.8

Holocaust:

Getto: Ghetto consisting of 2 parts from July 1941 to autumn1942

Zaglada: Executions: July 30,'41(400), 300 people burnt in mikveh spring '42, Nov.6/7,'42

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WWII
Cmentarze:

Czas powstania: no data

Pomniki pamieci:
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Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-28