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: PRASZKA Name: Prashka, Praska, Prashke, Prashki State before 1939: Poland State in 1945: Poland Województwo w 1939: łódzkie Województwo w 2007: częstochowskie Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 22 km S of Wielun Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 17th c. Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Under the Dzialoszyn kahal; independent community from 1823. Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
Rok spisu: 1921 Liczba: 1663 Procent: 37.1 Holocaust: Getto: Feb. 1941 -Sept.1942 with c.1,000 imprisoned; with the liquidation action some were deported to the Lodz ghetto.. Zaglada: Chelmno on Ner, Sept. 1942 Zachowane obiekty:Synagogi:
Adres: 27, Pilsudskiego Str Czas powstania: 1736 Sposób uzytkowania: community centerCmentarze:
Adres: Kosciuszki Str. Czas powstania: 1823 Ilosc nagrobków: 100 Uwagi: all overturned Pomniki pamieci: at the cemetery: inscription to the memory of 17 people murdered on Aug.12,1942.
Data aktualizacji: 2001-02-23
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