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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
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