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: BEŁŻYCE Name: Belzyce, Belzhitse, Belzhitza State before 1939: Poland State in 1945: Poland Województwo w 1939: lubelskie Województwo w 2007: lubelskie Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 25 km W of Lublin Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: early 16th c. Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: In 1643 Councils of the Lands assembled here; in 1764 there were 949 Jewish inhabitants. Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
Rok spisu: 1921 Liczba: 1882 Procent: 50.9 Holocaust: Getto: 1940-May 1943, with c. 4,500 imprisoned, some from Krakow and Szczecin; during the liquidation c.800 people were shot Zaglada: Majdanek, May and Sept.1942, Belzec, Oct. 1942. Zachowane obiekty:Synagogi:
Czas powstania: 1795 Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed during WW2Cmentarze:
Adres: Przemysłowa (new) Czas powstania: 1825 Ilosc nagrobków: none left Uwagi: stone wall Pomniki pamieci: At the cemetery, granite slabs commemorating the Cygie family at the site of their execution on Oct.
Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-07
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