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