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: SOKÓŁKA

Name: Sokolka, Sokolke

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: białostockie

Województwo w 2007: białostockie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 41 km NE of Bialystok

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 2nd half of 17th c.

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: In 1698 license to settle; under Grodno kahal; in 1765 with 522 Jews; indepedent comm. from 19th c.

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 2821

Procent: 46.4

Holocaust:

Getto: 1941 - Jan.24,1943 with c.8,000 imprisoned, some from Janow, Krynki and Czyzew; in Nov. 1942 c8,000 deported to ?

Zaglada: Treblinka, January 1943

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Czas powstania: 1900

Sposób uzytkowania: taken down c1950
Cmentarze:

Adres: Zamenhofa Str.

Czas powstania: 17th c.

Ilosc nagrobków: 1100

Pomniki pamieci:
none was erected

Data aktualizacji: 2001-02-28