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: TORUŃ
 Name: Thorn, Torun
 State before 1939: Poland
 State in 1945: Poland
 Województwo w 1939: pomorskie
 Województwo w 2007: torunskie
 Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 206 km NW of Warsaw
 Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 18th c.
 Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: In 1766 with 6 Jewish families; kahal from 1848; in 1890 with 1,371 Jews (5,0%)
 Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
 Rok spisu: 1921
 Liczba: 354
 Procent: 0.9
 Holocaust:
 Getto: In autumn 1939 deported to Wloclawek, Lodz, and Aleksandrow
 Zaglada: Chelmno on Ner, 1942 ?
 Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:
 Adres: 12, Szczytna Str.
 Czas powstania: 1847
 Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in Oct.'39
Cmentarze:
 Adres: Pulaskiego Str.
 Czas powstania: 18th c.
 Najstarszy nagrobek: 1847
 Uwagi: destroyed in 1975
 Pomniki pamieci:
inscription at the building standing at the synagogue site
 Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-08
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