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: JÓZEFÓW BIŁG.

Name: Jozefow, Jozefow Ordynacki, Yozefov

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: lubelskie

Województwo w 2007: zamojskie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 126 km S of Lublin

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: From the town founding in 1725

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: in 1789 with 490 Jews (57,6%); Hebrew printers 1824-1841

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 1050

Procent: 78.1

Holocaust:

Getto: ? -1942; in July 1942 mass shooting of 2,000 people at Winiarczarska Gora; the remaining deported to a death camp

Zaglada: Belzec, 1942

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Adres: Gornicza/Krotka Str.

Czas powstania: late 18th c.

Sposób uzytkowania: public library
Cmentarze:

Czas powstania: 1744

Najstarszy nagrobek: 1762

Ilosc nagrobków: 4000

Pomniki pamieci:
at the execution site

Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-20