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: RAKÓW
 Name: Rakow
 State before 1939: Poland
 State in 1945: Byelorussia
 Województwo w 1939: wileńskie
 Województwo w 2007: minska obl.
 Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 38 km W of Minsk
 Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: From 18th c.; in 1765 with 785 Jewish taxpayers; in 1897 with 2,168 Jews (59,8 %)
 Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
 Rok spisu: 1921
 Liczba: 1421
 Holocaust:
 Getto: Aug.1941 - Feb.1942 with c.1,000 imprisoned.
 Zaglada: On Feb.4, 1942, 950 people were burnt alive in synagogue; executions: July & Sep
 Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:
 Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WWII
Cmentarze:
 Czas powstania: no data
 Pomniki pamieci:
at the execution site, at the site of synagogue
 Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-26
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