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: GRAJEWO

Name: Grayavah

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: białostockie

Województwo w 2007: lomzynskie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 243 km NE of Warsaw

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1676

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Estab. not later than early 18th c.; in 1808 with 197 Jews (38,6%); to 1862 restrictions on Jewish s

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 2834

Procent: 38.6

Holocaust:

Getto: Aug. 1941 - Nov.2, 1942; many executions; deported to the death camp via the camp at Prostki.

Zaglada: Treblinka, Nov. 1942

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Adres: Wojska Polskiego Str

Czas powstania: 19/20th c.

Sposób uzytkowania: cinema
Cmentarze:

Adres: New, Białostocka

Czas powstania: 18th c.

Ilosc nagrobków: none left

Uwagi: housing-estate

Pomniki pamieci:
at Nowa Str., at the site of execution of Aug. 1941

Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-07