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.

Some villages that are listed at Yad Vashem have not been included here.

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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