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