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: KOSTOPOL

Name: Ostolec Wielki

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Ukraine

Województwo w 1939: wołyńskie

Województwo w 2007: rivnenska oblast

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 38 km NW of Rowne

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: Settlers arrive in 18th c.

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: In 1847 with 153 Jews; in 1897 with 1,101 Jews (64,5%)

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 1185

Procent: 39.6

Holocaust:

Getto: Pogrom in July 1941; executions: Aug.16, (470 people), Oct.1,1941 (1,400); ghetto: Oct.5, 1941 - Oct.25, 1942.

Zaglada: All ghetto inhabitants were shot at Chotynce village on Oct. 25, 1942

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WWII
Cmentarze:

Czas powstania: no data

Pomniki pamieci:
none was erected

Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-21