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: BIRCZA

Name: Birtch

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: lwowskie

Województwo w 2007: przemyskie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 25 km SW of Przemysl

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1570

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: From 17th c.

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 1038

Procent: 53.8

Holocaust:

Getto: In June 1942 800 Jews were executed at the Wierzysko Mt. and 100 in the woods at the Kamienna Gora Mt.

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed WW II
Cmentarze:

Adres: Przemysl road

Czas powstania: 18th c.?

Najstarszy nagrobek: 1804

Ilosc nagrobków: 70

Pomniki pamieci:
At the Kamienna Gora, at the execution site

Data aktualizacji: 2000-11-24