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