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: BRODY

Name: Brod, Prode

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Ukraine

Województwo w 1939: tarnopolskie

Województwo w 2007: lwowska oblast

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 98 km E of Lvov

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: Late 16th c.

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: As early as 17th c.; in 18th c. next only to the Lvov one; assimilationist centre in 19th c.

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1931

Liczba: 8288

Procent: 46.3

Holocaust:

Getto: Jan 1942 -May 1943 with 10,000 people from the area

Zaglada: Belzec, Sept.19-21, Nov. 1942; the last ghetto inhabitants to Majdanek on May 1,

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Adres: Great

Czas powstania: 1742

Sposób uzytkowania: ruined
Cmentarze:

Adres: E of the town

Ilosc nagrobków: c.5000

Pomniki pamieci:
In the woods by the cemetery at the site of the execution of July 1941.

Data aktualizacji: 2000-11-28