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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: KĘPNO
 Name: Kempen, Kepno
 State before 1939: Poland
 State in 1945: Poland
 Województwo w 1939: poznańskie
 Województwo w 2007: kaliskie
 Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 68 km S of Kalisz
 Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1660
 Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: From 1609; in 17-18th c. famous talmudist centre; in 1800 with 1,308 Jews.
 Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
 Rok spisu: 1921
 Liczba: 262
 Procent: 4.2
 Holocaust:
 Getto: Oct. 1939 deportation to Wieruszow and from there to the Lodz ghetto.
 Zaglada: Chelmno on Ner ?
 Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:
 Adres: Starotargowa Str.
 Czas powstania: 1815
 Sposób uzytkowania: deserted
Cmentarze:
 Czas powstania: 1690
 Najstarszy nagrobek: pavements at Bralino
 Ilosc nagrobków: none left
 Uwagi: gas station
 Pomniki pamieci:
none was erected
 Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-08
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