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: KRAŚNIK

Name: Kosznik, Koshnik, Krashnik, Krushnik

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: lubelskie

Województwo w 2007: lubelskie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 47 km S of Lublin

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1531

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: One of major communities in Poland; in 1631 with 300 Jews (11,0%); in 1787 with 2,416 Jews (64 %).

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 4200

Procent: 50.6

Holocaust:

Getto: Aug. 1940 - Nov.1942 with c.6,000 imprisoned; some deported to the Zaklikow labour camp and ghetto.

Zaglada: Belzec, April, Oct., Nov. 1942

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Adres: Boznicza Str.

Czas powstania: Great, 1637-54

Sposób uzytkowania: deserted
Cmentarze:

Adres: Szewska Str.

Czas powstania: 19th c.

Ilosc nagrobków: 10

Uwagi: tombstone-pavements by the cemetery

Pomniki pamieci:
at the cemetery

Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-08