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: CHMIELNIK

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: kieleckie

Województwo w 2007: kieleckie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 30 km S of Kielce

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1st half of 16th c.

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Community already in 1630; destroyed during the Swedish invasion; rebuilt in 18th c.

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 5908

Procent: 76.8

Holocaust:

Getto: May 1940 - Nov. 1942 with c.13,000 people, some from Plock, Radom, and Lodz.

Zaglada: Treblinka, Autumn 1942

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Adres: Wspolna Str.

Czas powstania: after 1630

Sposób uzytkowania: deserted
Cmentarze:

Adres: New, Targow Sq.

Czas powstania: 1820

Ilosc nagrobków: none left

Pomniki pamieci:
none was erected

Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-07