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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: BEŁCHATÓW
 Name: Belchatow, Belchatov,Belkhatov
 State before 1939: Poland
 State in 1945: Poland
 Województwo w 1939: łódzkie
 Województwo w 2007: piotrkowskie
 Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 30 km W of Piotrkow Tryb.
 Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1764
 Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Independent community from mid-19th c.
 Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
 Rok spisu: 1921
 Liczba: 3688
 Procent: 59.0
 Holocaust:
 Getto: March 1940-Aug. 1942; with c.5,000 imprisoned; during the liquidation c.1,000 people weere deported
 Zaglada: Chelmno on Ner, Aug. 1942
 Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:
 Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed during WW2
Cmentarze:
 Adres: Lipowa Str.
 Czas powstania: 19th c.
 Ilosc nagrobków: none left
 Uwagi: currently a park
 Pomniki pamieci:
1. At the cemetery, Lipowa Str., older memorial destroyed in 1970s was replaced with new one in 1989
 Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-07
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