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: SMORGONIE
 Name: Smorgon, Smurgainiai
 State before 1939: Poland
 State in 1945: Byelorussia
 Województwo w 1939: wileńskie
 Województwo w 2007: grodnienska obl..
 Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 277 km E of Grodno
 Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: early 17th c.
 Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Estab. in 1651; in 1765 with 649 Jews
 Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
 Rok spisu: 1921
 Liczba: 4000
 Holocaust:
 Getto: 1941-summer 1942 in 2 areas; Jews partly deported to the Kowno ghetto
 Zaglada: Ponary, summer 1942.
 Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:
 Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WWII
Cmentarze:
 Czas powstania: no data
 Pomniki pamieci:
none was erected
 Data aktualizacji: 2001-02-23
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