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: KLASNO

Name: Klasna

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, curr. Wieliczka

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 14th c. about saltmine leasers

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Ban on Jewish settlement in Wieliczka from 16th c. to 1867, so Jews settled in nearby Klasno.

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 396

Procent: 66.0

Holocaust:

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

Zaglada: Belzec, Aug. 1942

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Adres: 11, Wiejska Str.

Czas powstania: mid-18th c.

Sposób uzytkowania: deserted
Cmentarze:

Adres: Grabowek hill

Czas powstania: 18th c. ?

Ilosc nagrobków: 50

Pomniki pamieci:
at the cemetery

Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-08