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: PIOTRKÓW TRYB. Name: PiotrkowTrybunalski, Petrikau, Petrikov State before 1939: Poland State in 1945: Poland Województwo w 1939: łódzkie Województwo w 2007: piotrkowskie Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 42 km S of Lodz Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: In 1569 - ban on settlement Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Jews lived outside the town; in 1629 the ban was repealed; pogrom in 1657. Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
Rok spisu: 1921 Liczba: 11630 Procent: 28.4 Holocaust: Getto: Oct.1939-Oct. 1942 with c.25,000 imprisoned in 182 houses, some from Rozprza, Wolbrom, Czestochowa; vestigial ghetto in Zaglada: Treblinka, Oct. 1942 Zachowane obiekty:Synagogi:
Adres: Jerozolimska Str. Czas powstania: 1791-1793 Sposób uzytkowania: Little, libraryCmentarze:
Adres: 93, Spacerowa Str. Czas powstania: late 18th c. Najstarszy nagrobek: 1794 Ilosc nagrobków: 4,000 Pomniki pamieci: 1.at the cemetery; 2. at the Las Rakowski, where 60 people were shot; 3. the synagogues and the mar
Data aktualizacji: 2001-08-07
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