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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: OSTROWIEC ŚW.
 Name: Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski, Ostrovitz
 State before 1939: Poland
 State in 1945: Poland
 Województwo w 1939: kieleckie
 Województwo w 2007: kieleckie
 Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 67 km S of Radom
 Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 17th c.
 Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Community from 18th c.; in 1787 with 354 Jews (35,4 %).
 Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
 Rok spisu: 1921
 Liczba: 10095
 Procent: 51.2
 Holocaust:
 Getto: April 1941 -spring 1943 with c.16,000 imprisoned, some from Vienna, Warthegau; labour camp from Oct. 1942.
 Zaglada: Treblinka, Oct. 1942 (11,000 people)
 Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:
 Czas powstania: 1714 (wooden)
 Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WW II
Cmentarze:
 Adres: Sienkiewicza Str.
 Czas powstania: 1657
 Najstarszy nagrobek: 1850
 Ilosc nagrobków: 200
 Uwagi: partly covered by a park
 Pomniki pamieci:
none was erected
 Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-08
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