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: BIECZ

Name: Bejcz, Baych, Beitch, Beytch, Baytsh

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: krakowskie

Województwo w 2007: krośnieńskie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 55 km E of Nowy Sacz

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 14th c.

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: From 1569 ban on Jewish settlement; ignored from 18th c.; in 1765 - 35 Jews; community in 2nd half

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 632

Procent: 17.2

Holocaust:

Getto: April 1942 -Aug. 1942 with c.1,000 Jews; 120 people were executed at the cemetery.

Zaglada: Belzec, Aug.1942

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Adres: 35, Rynek Str.

Czas powstania: mid-19th c.

Sposób uzytkowania: library
Cmentarze:

Adres: Tysiaclecia Str.

Czas powstania: 19th c.

Ilosc nagrobków: 20

Pomniki pamieci:
At the Jewish cemetery

Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-07