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: BRZEZINY

Name: Berzin, Bezhezhin, Brezhin, Loewenstadt

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: łódzkie

Województwo w 2007: skierniewickie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 22 km E of Lodz

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1564

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Independent community from 18th c.

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 4979

Procent: 46.8

Holocaust:

Getto: May 1940-May 1942 with c.6,000 people, some from Strykow and Lodz.

Zaglada: Chelmno on Ner, May 19-21, 1942.

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed during WW2
Cmentarze:

Adres: Reymonta Str.

Czas powstania: 16th c.

Ilosc nagrobków: none left

Pomniki pamieci:
1. Memorial to the Jews of Brzeziny at the cemetery; 2. inscription to 6000 Jews of the Brzeziny ghe

Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-07