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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: 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
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