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: BĘDZIN
Name: Bedzin, Bendin, Bendzin
State before 1939: Poland
State in 1945: Poland
Województwo w 1939: kieleckie
Województwo w 2007: katowickie
Odleglosc od duzego miasta: 15 km NE of Katowice
Pierwsze wzmianki o Zydach: 1453
Informacje o gminie zydowskiej: In 16th c. Jews granted the right to settle; in 1765 with 446 Jewish inhabitants.
Liczba Zydów przed 1939:
Rok spisu: 1921
Liczba: 17298
Procent: 62.1
Holocaust:
Getto: July 1,1940-Aug.1943 with c.5,500 Jews imprisoned, including inhabitants of Oswiecim; resistance - ŻOB was active.
Zaglada: Auschwitz, April, Nov. 1942, June, Aug. 1943 (7,000 people).
Zachowane obiekty:
Synagogi:
Adres: down by the Castle
Czas powstania: 19th c.
Sposób uzytkowania: burnt 8/9.09.1939
Cmentarze:
Adres: Góra Zamkowa
Czas powstania: 19th c.
Najstarszy nagrobek: 1831
Ilosc nagrobków: 300
Uwagi: New (19th c.), Sielecka Str.,destroyed
Pomniki pamieci:
1. At the synagogue site; 2.Memorial inscription to 40 Jews executed on Sept.9, 1939,. 22 lipca Str.
Data aktualizacji: 2001-01-07