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: LIDA

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Byelorussia

Województwo w 1939: nowogródzkie

Województwo w 2007: grodnenska oblast

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 112 km E of Grodno

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1623 under Grodno kahal

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Independent comm. in 18th c.; in 1766 with 1,167 poll-tax payers; in 1897 with 5,166 Jews (68%)

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 5419

Procent: 40.4

Holocaust:

Getto: Autumn 1941 - Sept.19,1943 with c.9,000 imprisoned; partisans at Nalibocka forest (Tuvia Bielski)

Zaglada: Executions by the town: May 8, (c 5,700), June 3 (2,500) 1942

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WWII
Cmentarze:

Ilosc nagrobków: none left

Uwagi: biult-up area

Pomniki pamieci:
Krasnoarmiejska Str., at the execution site

Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-21