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: DRZEWICA

Name: Dzhevitza, Zhevitza

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: kieleckie

Województwo w 2007: radomskie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 60 km W of Radom

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: mid-18th c.

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Ban on settlement to 1862; Jews inhabit the town illegally; in 1827with 118 Jews (29,7 %). Gmina u

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 1013

Procent: 61.0

Holocaust:

Getto: Spring 1941- Oct. 1942 with c.2,000 Jews imprisoned, some from Plock.

Zaglada: Treblinka, Oct. 1942.

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WWII
Cmentarze:

Adres: Kolejowa Str.

Czas powstania: 1865

Ilosc nagrobków: none left

Pomniki pamieci:
none was erected

Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-17