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: MSZANA DOLNA

Name: Meshana Dolna

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: krakowskie

Województwo w 2007: nowosądeckie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 58 km S of Krakow

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: In 1870 there was an independent community at Mszana.

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 410

Procent: 13.6

Holocaust:

Getto: On Aug.19, 1942 881 Jews were executed (shot)

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed
Cmentarze:

Adres: Zakopianska Str.

Czas powstania: 19th c.

Ilosc nagrobków: 25

Pomniki pamieci:
1. at the site of the execution of 22 Jews on May 1, 1941 (Marka Str.) ; 2. at Mroza Str., at the s

Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-08