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: BOBOWA

Name: Bobova, Bobov

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: krakowskie

Województwo w 2007: nowosadeckie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 40 km S of Tarnow

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: mid-16th c.

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Established in mid-18th c.; in 1765 with 218 Jews; famous chassidic centre.

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 565

Procent: 39.7

Holocaust:

Getto: Oct. 1941 -Aug. 1942; deported to the Gorlice and Biecz ghettos; execution of 25 people at market; in the Stroze woods

Zaglada: Belzec, Aug. 1943

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Adres: by the Market

Czas powstania: 1756

Sposób uzytkowania: deserted
Cmentarze:

Adres: Stroze road

Czas powstania: 18th c.

Ilosc nagrobków: 200

Uwagi: ohel of the tzaddik

Pomniki pamieci:
at the cemetery

Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-07