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: KATOWICE

Name: Kattowitz

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: śląskie

Województwo w 2007: katowickie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 285 km SW of Warsaw

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1773 at Bogucice

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Jewish settlement in mid-19th c., under the Myslowice kahal; independent community from 1866

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1938

Liczba: 12000

Procent: 12.0

Holocaust:

Getto: no data

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Adres: Mickiewicza Str.

Czas powstania: 1900

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed Sept.1939
Cmentarze:

Adres: Kozielska Str.

Czas powstania: 1869

Ilosc nagrobków: 400

Uwagi: burial house

Pomniki pamieci:
1.at the synagogue site, Mickiewicza Str.; 2. at the cemetery

Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-08