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: GORLICE

Name: Gorlits, Gorlittse, Gorlitza

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: krakowskie

Województwo w 2007: nowosądeckie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 41 km E of Nowy Sacz

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 2nd half of 18th c.

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Ban on settlement 16-mid-19th c.; in 1900 with 3,297 Jews (51%)

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 2300

Procent: 41.0

Holocaust:

Getto: Oct. 1941-Aug.18, 1942 with c.2,500 Jews; during liquidation action 250 people were executed at the cemetery

Zaglada: Belzec, Aug. 1942

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Adres: Big, 3,Piekarska Str

Czas powstania: mid-19th c.

Sposób uzytkowania: bakery
Cmentarze:

Adres: Strozowska Str.

Czas powstania: 19th c.

Ilosc nagrobków: 500

Uwagi: ohel

Pomniki pamieci:
1. at the cemetery; 2. Piekarska Str.; 3. Korczaka Str.

Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-17