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: DRUJA

Name: Druya

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Byelorussia

Województwo w 1939: wileńskie

Województwo w 2007: vitebska obl.

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 365 km N of Minsk

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 16th c.

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: As early as 17th c.; in 1766 with 1,305 Jews.

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 1011

Procent: 41.2

Holocaust:

Getto: Spring 1942 - June 17, 1942

Zaglada: the ghetto was set on fire and its inhabitants executed.

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Czas powstania: 1766

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WWII
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Uwagi: no data

Pomniki pamieci:
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Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-17