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: BIAŁA

Name: Biala

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: krakowskie

Województwo w 2007: bielskie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: now part of Bielsko-Biala

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 17th c.

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: From mid-18th c.; in 1765 Jews were expelled from the town; in 19th c. settled at Lipnik.

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 1363

Procent: 17.6

Holocaust:

Getto: In Oct.1939 men were resettled to Nisko on San; in 1940 women with children to ghettos in Silesia.

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Adres: Glowna Str.

Czas powstania: 1889

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed WW II
Cmentarze:

Adres: ul. Wyzwolenia 55

Czas powstania: 1849

Najstarszy nagrobek: destroyed in 1966

Ilosc nagrobków: c.100

Uwagi: curr. at the Bielsko cemetery

Pomniki pamieci:
at the cemetery site

Data aktualizacji: 2000-11-21