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: WOŁOŻYN
 Name: Wolozyn, Volozhin
 State before 1939: Poland
 State in 1945: Byelorussia
 Województwo w 1939: nowogródzkie
 Województwo w 2007: minska obl.
 Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 200 km E of Grodno
 Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 16th c.
 Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Estab. not later than 1st half of 18th c.; in 1766 with 383 Jews; yeshiva 1803 - 1892.
 Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
 Rok spisu: 1921
 Liczba: 1434
 Procent: 54.5
 Holocaust:
 Getto: All Jews were shot during three "actions".
 Zaglada: Executions: June 1941, Sept. 1942 (1,000), Aug. 1943 (1,600)
 Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:
 Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WWII
Cmentarze:
 Czas powstania: no data
 Pomniki pamieci:
1. at Wysoka Gora, (execution of Sept. 1942, 1,000 people); 2. Jewish cemetery, Dubinska Str., execu
 Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-28
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