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
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