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: SKIDEL

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Byelorussia

Województwo w 1939: białostockie

Województwo w 2007: grodnenska obl.

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 30 km E of Grodno

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: In 18th c.; in 1765 with 463 Jews; in 1847 with 1,080 Jews

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 3231

Procent: 76.7

Holocaust:

Getto: In Nov. 1942 Jews were deported to the Kielbasin transit camp or (other sources) shot near the town (c 2,300 people)

Zaglada: At the outskirts or in Treblinka (from Kielbasin)

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WWII
Cmentarze:

Czas powstania: no data

Pomniki pamieci:
none was erected

Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-27