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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: CIESZYN
 Name: Cheshin, Teschen, Teshin
 State before 1939: Poland
 State in 1945: Poland
 Województwo w 1939: śląskie
 Województwo w 2007: bielskie
 Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 31 km W of Bielsko
 Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1531
 Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: From 1631 Jakub Singer and his descendants lived there; other Jews from mid-18th c.; in 1780 with 88
 Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
 Rok spisu: 1921
 Liczba: 1591
 Procent: 10.4
 Holocaust:
 Getto: Not established; in Oct.1939 men were deported to Nisko; the remaining gradually to the Upper Silesia ghettos.
 Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:
 Adres: Bóżnicza / Mennicza
 Czas powstania: 1838
 Sposób uzytkowania: burnt Sept.13,1939
Cmentarze:
 Adres: Old - Hażlaska
 Czas powstania: 16th c.as private
 Najstarszy nagrobek: 1686
 Ilosc nagrobków: 1576
 Uwagi: burial house
 Pomniki pamieci:
At the former Community Hall ( 1998).
 Data aktualizacji: 2000-11-28
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