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: BIELSKO Name: Bielitz, Byelsko State before 1939: Poland State in 1945: Poland Województwo w 1939: śląskie Województwo w 2007: bielskie Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 100 km W of Krakowna zach od Krakowa Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 2nd half of 17th c. Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Under the Cieszyn kahal jurisdiction; first synagogue in 1800; independent community in 1865; revive Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
Rok spisu: 1921 Liczba: 3928 Procent: 20.1 Holocaust: Getto: In Oct.1939 men were deported to the Nisko camp; the remaining to ghettos in Upper Silesia in 1940-42. Zachowane obiekty:Synagogi:
Adres: Mickiewicza Str. Czas powstania: 1881 Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed during WW2Cmentarze:
Adres: 92, Cieszynska Str. Czas powstania: 1849 Najstarszy nagrobek: 1849 Ilosc nagrobków: 1500 Pomniki pamieci: 1. At the burial House (inscription); 2. Mickiewicza Str. (inscription).
Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-07
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