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: KORZEC Name: Korec, Koretz, Koritz State before 1939: Poland State in 1945: Ukraine Województwo w 1939: wołyńskie Województwo w 2007: volynska obl. Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 132 km E of Luck Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 13th c. Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: In 1648-49 community destroyed by Chmelnicki's Cossacks; Hebrew printers; chassidic center Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
Rok spisu: 1921 Liczba: 3888 Procent: 78.6 Holocaust: Getto: On Aug.20, 1941 350 Jews were shot; 2,200 were shot on May 21, 1942 off the town, at Kozaki Zachowane obiekty:Synagogi:
Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WWIICmentarze:
Ilosc nagrobków: 100 Pomniki pamieci: at Kozaki, at the execution site
Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-21
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