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: RATNO

Name: Ratne, Rotno

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Ukraine

Województwo w 1939: wołyńskie

Województwo w 2007: volynska oblast

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 55 km N of Kowel

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1516

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: From 16th c.; in 1564 with 156 Jews; in 1756 with 210 Jews; in 1847 with 1,065 Jews (44,2%)

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 1554

Procent: 64.5

Holocaust:

Getto: No data; on July 17, 1942 120, Jews were shot in retaliation for the killing of 2 German officers by partisans

Zaglada: Aug.25, 1942: the rest (c.1,300 people) were executed in the nearby quarry

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WWII
Cmentarze:

Czas powstania: no data

Pomniki pamieci:
no data

Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-26