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: BUSK

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Ukraine

Województwo w 1939: tarnopolskie

Województwo w 2007: lwowska oblast

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 34 km E of Lwow

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1454

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: To late 16th c. under the Lwow kahal; in 18th c. famous centre of Sabbataists; place of residence of

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 1533

Procent: 24.9

Holocaust:

Getto: Executions in Sept. 1942; upon liquidation of the ghetto many people executed by the Olesko road on May 21, 1943.

Zaglada: Others were deported to the Janowski camp and murdered in June 1943.

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Adres: E of the market

Czas powstania: 1842-43

Sposób uzytkowania: ruin
Cmentarze:

Adres: off the town

Czas powstania: 16th c.

Najstarszy nagrobek: 1521

Ilosc nagrobków: over 300

Pomniki pamieci:
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Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-07