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: PILICA

Name: Pilitsa, Pilitz, Pilts, Piltz

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: kieleckie

Województwo w 2007: katowickie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 20 km E of Zawiercie

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1581

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: As early as 16th c.; in 1653 Jews were expelled; returned in 1700; the last Jewish Council of Lands

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 1877

Procent: 57.0

Holocaust:

Getto: Deported to the Wolbrom ghetto; in Jan.1943 70 people were shot at the Jewish cemetery

Zaglada: Belzec, July 1942

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Adres: wooden

Czas powstania: 18th c.

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WW II
Cmentarze:

Adres: New, off the town

Czas powstania: 1842

Najstarszy nagrobek: 1870

Ilosc nagrobków: 328

Uwagi: tzaddik's tomb

Pomniki pamieci:
none was erected

Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-08