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: MIR

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Byelorussia

Województwo w 1939: nowogródzkie

Województwo w 2007: grodnenska oblast

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 252 kmNE of Brest Litovsk

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: early 17th c.

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Estab. not later than 18th c.; in 1662 Jewish Council of 4 Lands; in 1765 with 607 Jews

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 2074

Procent: 55.4

Holocaust:

Getto: 1941 - Aug.13, 1942; Daniel Rufeisen helped 200 Jews join the partisan units

Zaglada: Executions: Nov.9, 1941 (1,500), Aug.13,1942 (woods at Jablonowszyzna)

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WWII
Cmentarze:

Ilosc nagrobków: 100

Pomniki pamieci:
at the execution sites: Oktiabrska Str., Tankistov Str., Jablonowszczyzna

Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-23