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: WIELICZKA

Name: Vilietchka

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: krakowskie

Województwo w 2007: krakowskie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 13 km E of Krakow

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 14th c. about mine lessees

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Ban from 16th c. to 1867; settling in nearby colony Klasno; kahal in 1890s; in 1893 - 614 Jews (10%

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 1135

Procent: 15.7

Holocaust:

Getto: May 1941-Aug.28, 1942 with c.7,000 imprisoned, some from Dobrzyca, Gdow and Niepołomice.

Zaglada: Belzec, August 1942

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Adres: 11, Seraf Str.

Czas powstania: 1911

Sposób uzytkowania: dwelling-house
Cmentarze:

Adres: Siercza (Grabówek)

Czas powstania: 18th c.

Ilosc nagrobków: 50

Pomniki pamieci:
at the cemetery

Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-28