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: MIELEC Name: Melitz State before 1939: Poland State in 1945: Poland Województwo w 1939: krakowskie Województwo w 2007: rzeszowskie Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 60 km NW of Rzeszow Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1573 Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Estab. not later than 17th c.; in 1765 with 585 Jews Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
Rok spisu: 1921 Liczba: 2807 Procent: 50.1 Holocaust: Getto: ? - March, 1942 with c.4,500 imprisoned; some were shot upon the liquidation; the rest deported to other Lublin area ghe Zaglada: Belzec, Sobibor, 1942 Zachowane obiekty:Synagogi:
Czas powstania: 1902 Sposób uzytkowania: burnt Sept.15, 1939Cmentarze:
Adres: Jadernych Str. Czas powstania: old, 18th c. Ilosc nagrobków: fragments Uwagi: post office, memorial on the premises Pomniki pamieci: 1. at the synagogue site; 2. at the site of execution of 1,000 Jews at Przybosia Str. 3. at the ceme
Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-08
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