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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: OPOCZNO
 Name: Opotchna
 State before 1939: Poland
 State in 1945: Poland
 Województwo w 1939: kieleckie
 Województwo w 2007: piotrkowskie
 Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 27 km SE of Tomaszow Mazowiecki
 Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1501
 Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: 1588 -mid-18th c. ban on Jewish settlement; in 1765 with 1,349 Jews.
 Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
 Rok spisu: 1921
 Liczba: 3376
 Procent: 46.7
 Holocaust:
 Getto: Nov.1940 - Oct.27,1942 with c.3,000 imprisoned; in July 1942 400 were taken away to the Hasag factory in Skarzysko
 Zaglada: Treblinka, Oct. 1942
 Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:
 Adres: 13, Janasa Str.
 Czas powstania: late 18th c.
 Sposób uzytkowania: cinema
Cmentarze:
 Adres: Limanowskiego Str.
 Czas powstania: New, 19th c.
 Ilosc nagrobków: none left
 Uwagi: park
 Pomniki pamieci:
at the execution site
 Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-08
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