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: BYCHAWA

Name: Bekheve, Bichava, Bikhava, Byckov,

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: lubelskie

Województwo w 2007: lubelskie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 39 km S of Lublin

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: late 16th c.

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Already in 17th c.; in 1674 with 34 Jews (18,5 %); in 1775 with 198 (33,0%)

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 1876

Procent: 65.9

Holocaust:

Getto: Dec. 1940-Oct. 1942 with c.2,700 people, next deported to the Belzyce ghetto.

Zaglada: Sobibor, Oct. 1942

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Adres: 5, Kosciuszki Str.

Czas powstania: 1810

Sposób uzytkowania: deserted
Cmentarze:

Adres: Partyzantow Str.

Czas powstania: 1910

Ilosc nagrobków: none left

Pomniki pamieci:
none was erected

Data aktualizacji: 2001-02-23