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: LWÓW Name: Lviv, Lemberg, Lwow State before 1939: Poland State in 1945: Ukraine Województwo w 1939: lwowskie Województwo w 2007: lvivska obl. Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 381 km SE of Warsaw Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 12th c.from Kievan Russia Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: In late 14th c. 2 kahals: city and suburbian; joint community from c.1830 Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
Rok spisu: 1921 Liczba: 76854 Procent: 35.0 Holocaust: Getto: Pogrom on July 25-27,1941(2,000 people); ghetto:Aug. 1942 -June 1943; the rest to labour camps (20,000) Zaglada: Belzec,Mar.1942(15,000), Nov.1942; Janowski Camp, Jan. 1943(15,000 people) Zachowane obiekty:Synagogi:
Adres: Staroyevreyska Czas powstania: Zlotej Rozy 1582 Sposób uzytkowania: ruinCmentarze:
Adres: Janowska Str. Czas powstania: 19th c. Ilosc nagrobków: 2000 Uwagi: old of 14th c. destroyed in WWII Pomniki pamieci: at the former ghetto terr.; at the site of Janowski Camp; plate at the Tempel synagogue site
Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-28
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