List of shtetls

See also List of villages and towns depopulated of Jews during the Holocaust

This list of shtetls and shtots (larger towns with significant pre-World War II Jewish populations) is organized by their country.

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

Shtetls

Yiddish names are in parentheses (if different), current names are linked.

 Belarus

 Latvia

 Lithuania

 Poland

Note: Towns formerly in the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia are marked with "(G)". Towns in formerly Russian Zagłębie Dąbrowskie (Zaglembia) are marked with "(Z)".

 Ukraine

Note: Towns formerly in the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia are marked with "(G)".

Others

Shtots

Present-day countryCityYiddish nameRomanized formPre–World War II Jewish population
 Austria Vienna װין Vin 166,000 [3]
 Belarus Bobruisk באַברויסק Babruisk 21,558 [4]
 Belarus Brest בריסק Brisk 30,000 [5]
 Belarus Minsk מינסק Minsk 90,000 [6]
 Belarus Pinsk פינסק Pinsk 20,200 [7]
 Belarus Vitebsk וויטעבסק Vitebsk 34,400 [8]
 Czech Republic Prague פּראָג Prog 56,000 [9]
 Germany Frankfurt פראנקפורטFrankfurt 26,158 [10]
 Hungary Budapest בודאפעסט Budapest 184,000 [11]
 Latvia Daugavpils דווינסק Dvinsk 11,106 [12]
 Latvia Riga ריגע Rige 43,672 [13]
 Lithuania Kaunas קאָװנע Kovne 38,000 [14]
 Lithuania Vilnius װילנע Vilne 55,000 [15]
 Moldova Chişinău קישינעװ Kishinev 70,000 [16]
 Poland Białystok ביאַליסטאָק Byalistok 40,000 [17]
 Poland Gdańsk דאַנציג Dantsig
 Poland Kraków קראָקע Kroke 60,000 [18]
 Poland Łódź לאָדז Lodzh 223,000 [19]
 Poland Lublin לובלין Lublin 40,000 [20]
 Poland Poznań פּױזן Poyzn
 Poland Warsaw װאַרשע Varshe 400,000 [21]
 Poland Wrocław ברעסלוי Bresloy 10,309 [22]
 Romania Bucharest בוקארעשט Bukaresht 100,000 [23]
 Romania Cluj-Napoca קלויזענבורג Klozenberg 16,763 [24]
 Romania Iaşi יאַס Yas 51,000 [25]
 Russia Kaliningrad קעניגסבערג Kenigsberg
 Slovakia Bratislava פרעשבורג Pressburg 14,882 [26]
 Ukraine Chernivtsi טשערנאָוויץ Chernowitz 50,000 [27]
 Ukraine Dnipropetrovsk קאַטערינעסלאַוו Katerineslav 100,000 [28]
 Ukraine Ivano-Frankivsk סטאַניסלאװ Stanislav 30,000 [29]
 Ukraine Kiev קיִעװ Kiev 175,000 [30]
 Ukraine Kharkiv כאַרקעוו Kharkev 130,200 [31]
 Ukraine Khmelnytskyi פּראָסקערעוו Proskerev 13,500 [32]
 Ukraine L'viv לעמבערג Lemberg 150,000 [33]
 Ukraine Odessa אַדעס Ades 180,000 [34]
 Ukraine Ternopil טאַרנעפּאל Tarnepol 18,000 [35]
 Ukraine Vinnitsa וויניצע Vinitse 21,812 [36]
 Ukraine Zhytomyr זשיטאָמיר Zhitomir 30,000 [37]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Meler, Meyer (2006). Jewish Cemeteries in Latvia. Riga: Jewish Religious Community "Shamir". p. 83. ISBN 9984-19-904-5.
  2. ↑ Žasliai
  3. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t082/t08224.html
  4. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t009/t00933.html
  5. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t011/t01118.html
  6. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t050/t05064.html
  7. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t060/t06064.html
  8. ↑ Joshua D. Zimmerman, Poles, Jews, and the politics of nationality, Univ of Wisconsin Press, 2004, ISBN 0-299-19464-7, Google Print, p.16
  9. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t062/t06241.html
  10. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t022/t02239.html
  11. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t012/t01221.html
  12. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t017/t01713.html
  13. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t065/t06521.html
  14. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t037/t03796.html
  15. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t082/t08240.html
  16. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t039/t03920.html
  17. ↑ Feierstein, Daniel (2005). "The Jewish Resistance Movements in the Ghettos of Eastern Europe". In Sterling, Eric J. Life in the Ghettos During the Holocaust. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press. p. 226. ISBN 0-8156-0803-9.
  18. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t016/t01632.html
  19. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t045/t04592.html
  20. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t046/t04651.html
  21. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t083/t08360.html
  22. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t011/t01111.html
  23. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t011/t01192.html
  24. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t015/t01542.html
  25. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t031/t03158.html
  26. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t010/t01065.html
  27. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t014/t01419.html
  28. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t018/t01830.html
  29. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t073/t07395.html
  30. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t039/t03900.html
  31. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t038/t03854.html
  32. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t062/t06268.html
  33. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t047/t04759.html
  34. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t056/t05686.html
  35. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t076/t07685.html
  36. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t082/t08251.html
  37. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t087/t08736.html

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