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: BRZESKO

Name: Brigel, Briegel

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: krakowskie

Województwo w 2007: tarnowskie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 53 km E of Krakow

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: late 17th c.

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: In 18th c. community under the Wisnicz kahal; in 1765 with 187 Jews.

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 1935

Procent: 61.6

Holocaust:

Getto: 1940-1943 with c.4,000 people.

Zaglada: Belzec Sept. 1942

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Adres: 2, Puszkina Str.

Czas powstania: 1904

Sposób uzytkowania: public library
Cmentarze:

Adres: Czarnowiejska Str.

Czas powstania: 1846

Ilosc nagrobków: 400

Uwagi: ohel

Pomniki pamieci:
At the cemetery

Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-07