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: OPATÓW Name: Apt, Apta, Opatow State before 1939: Poland State in 1945: Poland Województwo w 1939: kieleckie Województwo w 2007: tarnobrzeskie Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 29 km NW of Sandomierz Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 16th c. Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Estab. in 1634; 200 families perished in 1655; in 1856 with 2,517 Jews (65,4%) Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
Rok spisu: 1921 Liczba: 5462 Procent: 61.9 Holocaust: Getto: Spring 1941 - Oct.1942 with c.7,000 imprisoned, some from Konin and Lodz; executions. Zaglada: Treblinka, Oct. 1942 Zachowane obiekty:Synagogi:
Czas powstania: 18th c. Sposób uzytkowania: taken down in 1960 ?Cmentarze:
Adres: 11, Partyzantow Str. Czas powstania: 17th c. Najstarszy nagrobek: 1707 Ilosc nagrobków: 20 Uwagi: partly built up Pomniki pamieci: tombstone memorial at the cemetery
Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-08
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