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: LESKO

Name: Lisko, Linsk, Lisk

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Poland

Województwo w 1939: lwowskie

Województwo w 2007: krosnienskie

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 57 km SE of Krosno

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1542

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: As an indepedent community in 18th c.; in 1580 with 120 Jews (10%); in 1765 with 1,656 Jews.

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 2338

Procent: 61.4

Holocaust:

Getto: spring 1941 - Aug.14,1942; deportations to the Zaslaw camp; 100 people were shot at the cemetery.

Zaglada: Belzec or Zaslaw, 1942

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Adres: Berka Joselewicza 16

Czas powstania: 2nd half 17th c.

Sposób uzytkowania: exhibition hall
Cmentarze:

Adres: Slowackiego Str.

Czas powstania: 16th c.

Najstarszy nagrobek: 1548

Ilosc nagrobków: 2,000

Pomniki pamieci:
at the cemetery

Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-08