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: GRODNO Name: Grodne, Horodne State before 1939: Poland State in 1945: Byelorussia Województwo w 1939: białostockie Województwo w 2007: grodnenska oblast Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 24 km NE of the Kuznica frontier station Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1389 Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: As early as 14th c.; one of the major communities in Lithuania; in 1766 with 2,555 Jews. Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
Rok spisu: 1921 Liczba: 18697 Procent: 53.9 Holocaust: Getto: From Nov. 1941, 2 ghettos with c.23,000 Jews; Nov.2-22,1942 deportations from Slobotka ghetto 2 of 10,000 people to Ausc Zaglada: Jan.18-23, 1943 10,000 people from ghetto 1 (Stuthof) deported to Auschwitz and Zachowane obiekty:Synagogi:
Czas powstania: Great,19th c. Sposób uzytkowania: Jewish CommunityCmentarze:
Adres: Forsztad Czas powstania: 19th c. Ilosc nagrobków: 1000 Pomniki pamieci: 1. obelisk at Solomonowej Str., at the site of Kielbasin camp; 2. inscription at Zamkowa Str.
Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-17
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