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