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: WASILISZKI

Name: Vasilishki

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Byelorussia

Województwo w 1939: nowogródzkie

Województwo w 2007: grodnenska obl.

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 28 km N of Szczuczyn

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: In 1847 with 719 Jews; in 1897 with 2,081 Jews (74,8%)

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 1223

Holocaust:

Zaglada: On May 11, 1942 all Jews (2,159 people) were shot N of the town

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WWII
Cmentarze:

Czas powstania: no data

Pomniki pamieci:
at the execution site

Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-27