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: CHRZANÓW

Name: Khshanov, Shonev, Chrzanow, Keshanov

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: krakowskie

Województwo w 2007: katowickie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 52 km NW of Krakow

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 16th c.

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: From 1745; in 1765 with 327 Jews; Great Synagogue of 1784 pulled down after 1953.

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 6328

Procent: 55.5

Holocaust:

Getto: Nov. 1941-Feb.18, 1943 with c.8,000 Jews imprisoned.

Zaglada: Auschwitz, Feb. 1943.

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Adres: 9, Maja Str.

Czas powstania: 19th c.

Sposób uzytkowania: covered market
Cmentarze:

Adres: Borowcowa Str.

Czas powstania: 1795

Ilosc nagrobków: 1000

Uwagi: 2 ohels

Pomniki pamieci:
Grunwaldzka Str., at the site of the execution of 7 Jews on April 9, 1942.

Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-07