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: WIDZE
 Name: Vidzy
 State before 1939: Poland
 State in 1945: Byelorussia
 Województwo w 1939: wileńskie
 Województwo w 2007: vitebska obl.
 Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 44 km N of Postawa
 Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: In 1847 with 2,281 Jews; in 1897 with 3,480 Jews (68,2%)
 Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
 Rok spisu: 1921
 Liczba: 316
 Holocaust:
 Getto: Autumn 1941 -Dec.1942 with c.2,700 imprisoned
 Zaglada: All were shot by the Widze lake
 Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:
 Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WWII
Cmentarze:
 Czas powstania: no data
 Pomniki pamieci:
none was erected
 Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-27
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