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: BRZEŻANY Name: Brzezany, Berezhany, Barzan, Berson State before 1939: Poland State in 1945: Ukraine Województwo w 1939: tarnopolskie Województwo w 2007: tarnopolska oblast Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 92 km N of Ivano-Frankivsk Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 18th c. Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Jewish councils' assembly place in 18th c.; in 1765 with 90 Jews. Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
Rok spisu: 1921 Liczba: 3582 Procent: 35.5 Holocaust: Getto: July 5-7,1941 pogrom; numerous executions prior to ghetto establ. later in 1942; upon its liquidation in June 1943 the r Zaglada: Belzec, Sept.21 and Dec. 4, 1942, c. 2,000 people Zachowane obiekty:Synagogi:
Czas powstania: 1718 Sposób uzytkowania: ruinedCmentarze:
Adres: outskirts Ilosc nagrobków: several Pomniki pamieci: no data
Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-07
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