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: GWOŹDZIEC

Name: Gwozdziec Miasto, Gvozdets, Gvozdec

State before 1939: Poland

State in 1945: Ukraine

Województwo w 1939: stanisławowskie

Województwo w 2007: ivanofrankivska obl.

Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 18 km E of Kolomyja

Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1635

Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: Estab. in 18th c.; in 1765 with 541 Jews; in 1880 with 1,263 Żydów (67,6%)

Liczba Zydów przed 1939:

Rok spisu: 1921

Liczba: 1234

Procent: 61.9

Holocaust:

Getto: After executions the survivors were deported to Kolomyja on April 24, 1942.

Zaglada: Executions: Dec.1941, April 12,1942; from Kolomyja to Belzec in Oct.1942.

Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:

Czas powstania: 1st h.17th c. wooden

Sposób uzytkowania: destroyed in WWII
Cmentarze:

Czas powstania: no data

Pomniki pamieci:
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Data aktualizacji: 2001-03-17