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: BERESTECZKO

Name: Berestechko

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Ukraine

Województwo w 1939: wołyńskie

Województwo w 2007: wołyńska oblast

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 30 km N of Brody

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1569

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Community from 17th c.; 200 families killed by the Chmielnicki Cossacks in 1651; in 1765 with 872 J

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 1975

Procent: 35.1

Holocaust:

Getto: Autumn 1941 -Sept. 1942

Zaglada: All inhabitants executed in Sept 1942 nearby the town.

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Adres: Nadbrzeżny Bulwar

Czas powstania: 18th c.

Sposób uzytkowania: dwelling-house
Cmentarze:

Adres: no data

Pomniki pamieci:
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Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-07