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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: KOWEL
 Name: Kovel
 State before 1939: Poland
 State in 1945: Ukraine
 Województwo w 1939: wołyńskie
 Województwo w 2007: volynska oblast
 Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 64 km E of Polish border
 Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Estab. in 1536; many killed in Chmielnicki massacres of 1648-49 in 1795 with 811 Jews (38%)
 Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
 Rok spisu: 1921
 Liczba: 12758
 Procent: 61.3
 Holocaust:
 Getto: In late 1941 executions in the Czeremcha woods; ghetto: May 25,1942-July 22,1942; Jews were mostly shot in the nearby w
 Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:
 Czas powstania: 19th c.
 Sposób uzytkowania: clothing workshop
Cmentarze:
 Ilosc nagrobków: none left
 Uwagi: park
 Pomniki pamieci:
at the execution site 10 km off the town
 Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-21
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