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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: OŚWIĘCIM
 Name: Oswiecim, Auschwitz, Oshvitsin
 State before 1939: Poland
 State in 1945: Poland
 Województwo w 1939: krakowskie
 Województwo w 2007: bielskie
 Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 60 km W of Krakow
 Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 15th c.
 Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: In 1563 restrictions on Jewish settlement; community from 2nd half of 18th c.
 Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
 Rok spisu: 1921
 Liczba: 4950
 Procent: 40.6
 Holocaust:
 Getto: Feb.18, 1941 Jews were deported to the Chrzanow, Bedzin, and Sosnowiec ghettos.
 Zaglada: Auschwitz, 1942
 Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:
 Adres: Zydowska Str.
 Czas powstania: after 1863
 Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed Sept.1939
Cmentarze:
 Adres: Dabrowskiego Str.
 Czas powstania: 18th c.
 Najstarszy nagrobek: 1757
 Ilosc nagrobków: 900
 Pomniki pamieci:
at the cemetery
 Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-08
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