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: KRAKÓW Name: Krakau, Kroke, Cracow State before 1939: Poland State in 1945: Poland Województwo w 1939: krakowskie Województwo w 2007: krakowskie Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 293 km S of Czestochowa Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 13th c. Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Established in early 14th c. Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
Rok spisu: 1921 Liczba: 45229 Procent: 24.6 Holocaust: Getto: March 3,1941 -March 14,1943 with 24,000; executions. Zaglada: Belzec, June 1942 (7,000) ; Auschwitz, Plaszow, March 1943 Zachowane obiekty:Synagogi:
Adres: 24, Szeroka Str. Czas powstania: Old,late 15th c. Sposób uzytkowania: Judaic museumCmentarze:
Adres: 55, Miodowa Str. Czas powstania: 1800 Ilosc nagrobków: 10,000 Uwagi: burial house, in use Pomniki pamieci: 1. at the cemetery; 2. at Podgorze, former ghetto area; 3. in Plaszow, former concentration camp
Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-21
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