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: BOCHNIA Name: Bokhnia, Kolonaw, Salzberg State before 1939: Poland State in 1945: Poland Województwo w 1939: krakowskie Województwo w 2007: tarnowskie Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 36 km E of Krakow Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1555 Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: In 1606 expelled from the town, accused of the Host desecration, the Jews settled at Wisnicz. Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
Rok spisu: 1921 Liczba: 2459 Procent: 22.3 Holocaust: Getto: March 15, 1941-Sept. 1943 with c.15,000 Jews; executions at the Baczkow woods (Sept.1943) and at the cemetery. Zaglada: Belzec, Aug. I942 (2,000 people), Nov. 1942 (500 people); 1942, Auschwitz, Sept. Zachowane obiekty:Synagogi:
Adres: 13, Trudna Str. Czas powstania: 1932 Sposób uzytkowania: bankCmentarze:
Adres: Krzeczkow Czas powstania: 1872 Najstarszy nagrobek: 1773 Ilosc nagrobków: 700 Uwagi: tzaddik's tomb Pomniki pamieci: 1. At the cemetery execution site; 2. in the Baczkow Woods, at the execution site.
Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-07
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