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: CZĘSTOCHOWA Name: Chenstchov, Chenstochov, Tshenstokhov State before 1939: Poland State in 1945: Poland Województwo w 1939: kieleckie Województwo w 2007: częstochowskie Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 217 km SW of Warsaw Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: mid-18th c. Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Independent community from 1808; before that under the Janow kahal. Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
Rok spisu: 1921 Liczba: 22663 Procent: 28.2 Holocaust: Getto: April 9, 1941-Sept.23, 1942 with c.48,000 Jews, some from neighbouring towns; vestigial ghetto to June 26,1943 Zaglada: Treblinka, Sept.22-Oct.8,1942 (c.40,000 people). Zachowane obiekty:Synagogi:
Adres: New,16, Wilsona Str. Czas powstania: 1899-1909 Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed during WW2Cmentarze:
Adres: Zlota Str. Czas powstania: 1799 Najstarszy nagrobek: 1808 Ilosc nagrobków: 2000 Uwagi: at the steelworks (Huta) area Pomniki pamieci: 1. at the Bohaterow Getta Sq.; 2. Kacza Str.; 3. at the hospital 4. filharmonia
Data aktualizacji: 2001-08-07
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