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: ILJA

Name: Ilja, Ilya

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Byelorussia

Województwo w 1939: wileńskie

Województwo w 2007: minska obl.

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 62 km NW of Minsk

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 586

Holocaust:

Zaglada: In 1942 - 2,300 people; in Aug. 1943 - 750 people were shot in Zarzeczna Str.

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WWII
Cmentarze:

Czas powstania: no data

Pomniki pamieci:
at the site of execution in Zarzeczna Str.

Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-20