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: OSTRÓG

Name: Ostrog, Ostra

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Ukraine

Województwo w 1939: wołyńskie

Województwo w 2007: rivnenska obl.

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 54 km E of Dubno

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1444

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: From 17th c.; in 1648 thousands killed in Chmelnicki massacres; 1765 with 2,000; Hebrew printers

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 7991

Procent: 61.6

Holocaust:

Getto: None was established; executions.

Zaglada: In the nearby woods: Aug.4,(3,000), Sept(2,500) 1941, Oct.15,1942 (3,000).

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Czas powstania: 1620

Sposób uzytkowania: storehouse
Cmentarze:

Ilosc nagrobków: none left

Pomniki pamieci:
at the execution site: in the woods by Nowe Miasto

Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-23