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: DYWIN

Name: Divin

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Byelorussia

Województwo w 1939: poleskie

Województwo w 2007: brestska obl..

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 35 km S of Kobryn

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1631

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: estab. in 18th c.; in 1766 with 211 Jews; in 1897 with 1,094 Jews (29,2%)

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 786

Procent: 34.2

Holocaust:

Getto: 1941 - 1942

Zaglada: All Jews (1,450 people) were shot in the ghetto in 1942.

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WWII.
Cmentarze:

Czas powstania: no data

Pomniki pamieci:
at the former ghetto area

Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-17