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: KOCK

Name: Kotsk

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: lubelskie

Województwo w 2007: lubelskie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 139 km SE of Warsaw

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 17th c.

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Estab. not later than mid-17th c.; in 1765 with 489 Jews; from 1829 famous chassidic centre.

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 2095

Procent: 53.6

Holocaust:

Getto: ? -Oct. 1942 with c. 3,000 imprisoned, some from Lubartow Suwałki; in Aug. 1942 partly deported to the Parczew ghetto.

Zaglada: Treblinka, Oct.1942

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Adres: Radzynska Str.

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WW II
Cmentarze:

Adres: outskirts

Czas powstania: 18th c.

Ilosc nagrobków: 10

Uwagi: tzaddik's ohel

Pomniki pamieci:
none was erected

Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-08