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: OSTRYNA

Name: Astrin, Istrin, Ostrin

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Byelorussia

Województwo w 1939: nowogródzkie

Województwo w 2007: grodnenska obl.

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 50 km E of Grodno

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1569

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: First under the Grodno kahal; in 1765 with 436 Jews.

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 1067

Procent: 67.3

Holocaust:

Getto: Oct. 1941 - Nov.2, 1942 with c.1,200 imprisoned, some from Nowy Dwor; next deported to the camp at Kielbasin near Grodno

Zaglada: Auschwitz, Treblinka, Jan. 1943

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WW II
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Adres: no data

Pomniki pamieci:
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Data aktualizacji: 2001-02-23