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: KRASNYSTAW

Name: Krasnistav

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: lubelskie

Województwo w 2007: chełmskie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 52 km SE of Lublin

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1548

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: In 1554-1862 ban on Jewish settlement in town; in 1857 with 151 Jews (4,2%)

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 1754

Procent: 19.6

Holocaust:

Getto: Aug. 1940 - Oct.1942 with c.2,000 imprisoned, some from Czech Rep. and Germany; some deported to Izbica.

Zaglada: Belzec, April 1942

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Adres: 3, Czyste Str.

Czas powstania: late 19th c.

Sposób uzytkowania: cooperatve producers
Cmentarze:

Adres: Chelm road

Czas powstania: 1890

Ilosc nagrobków: 5

Pomniki pamieci:
none was erected

Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-08