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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: BIŁGORAJ
 Name: Bilgoraj, Bilgoray
 State before 1939: Poland
 State in 1945: Poland
 Województwo w 1939: lubelskie
 Województwo w 2007: zamojskie
 Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 84 km S of Lublin
 Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 17th c.
 Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: 1728 - permission to found a cemetery; in 1778 with 418 Jews(19,2 %); from 1900 famous book-printing
 Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
 Rok spisu: 1921
 Liczba: 3715
 Procent: 66.3
 Holocaust:
 Getto: 1941-Jan 1943 with c.2,500 Jews, including some from Tarnopol; executions at the cemetery.
 Zaglada: Belzec, Jan. 1943
 Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:
 Adres: Market Sq.
 Czas powstania: 1875
 Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed WW II
Cmentarze:
 Adres: Konopnickiej Str.
 Czas powstania: 19th c.
 Ilosc nagrobków: 50
 Pomniki pamieci:
Broken-tombstone memorial at the cemetery
 Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-07
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