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.

 Azerbaijan

 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
 AustriaVienna װיןVin166,000 [3]
 BelarusBobruisk באַברויסקBabruisk21,558 [4]
 BelarusBrest בריסקBrisk30,000 [5]
 BelarusMinsk מינסקMinsk90,000 [6]
 BelarusPinsk פינסקPinsk20,200 [7]
 BelarusVitebsk וויטעבסקVitebsk34,400 [8]
 Czech RepublicPrague פּראָגProg56,000 [9]
 GermanyFrankfurt פראנקפורטFrankfurt26,158 [10]
 HungaryBudapest בודאפעסטBudapest184,000 [11]
 LatviaDaugavpils דווינסקDvinsk11,106 [12]
 LatviaRiga ריגעRige43,672 [13]
 LithuaniaKaunas קאָװנעKovne38,000 [14]
 LithuaniaVilnius װילנעVilne55,000 [15]
 MoldovaChişinău קישינעװKishinev70,000 [16]
 PolandBiałystok ביאַליסטאָקByalistok40,000 [17]
 PolandGdańsk דאַנציגDantsig
 PolandKraków קראָקעKroke60,000 [18]
 PolandŁódź לאָדזLodzh223,000 [19]
 PolandLublin לובליןLublin40,000 [20]
 PolandPoznań פּױזןPoyzn
 PolandWarsaw װאַרשעVarshe400,000 [21]
 PolandWrocław ברעסלויBresloy10,309 [22]
 RomaniaBucharest בוקארעשטBukaresht100,000 [23]
 RomaniaCluj-Napoca קלויזענבורגKlozenberg16,763 [24]
 RomaniaIaşi יאַסYas51,000 [25]
 RussiaKaliningradקעניגסבערגKenigsberg5,500 [26]
 RussiaMoscowמאָסקוועMoskve250,000 [27]
 RussiaSaint Petersburg (Leningrad in 1939)לענינגראַדLeynengradyeh200,000 [28]
 RussiaSmolenskסמאָלענסקSmolensk3,000 [29]
 SlovakiaBratislava פרעשבורגPressburg14,882 [30]
 UkraineChernivtsi טשערנאָוויץChernowitz50,000 [31]
 UkraineDnipropetrovskקאַטערינעסלאַווKaterineslav100,000 [32]
 UkraineIvano-FrankivskסטאַניסלאװStanislav30,000 [33]
 UkraineKiev קיִעװKiev175,000 [34]
 UkraineKharkivכאַרקעווKharkev130,200 [35]
 UkraineKhmelnytskyi פּראָסקערעווProskerev13,500 [36]
 UkraineL'viv לעמבערגLemberg150,000 [37]
 UkraineOdessa אַדעסAdes180,000 [38]
 UkraineTernopil טאַרנעפּאלTarnepol18,000 [39]
 UkraineVinnitsa וויניצעVinitse21,812 [40]
 UkraineZhytomyr זשיטאָמירZhitomir30,000 [41]

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://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~community~-2918852
  27. ↑ http://www.kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Moskva/MoskvaHistory.htm
  28. ↑ http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Saint_Petersburg
  29. ↑ http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~community~-3006140
  30. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t010/t01065.html
  31. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t014/t01419.html
  32. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t018/t01830.html
  33. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t073/t07395.html
  34. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t039/t03900.html
  35. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t038/t03854.html
  36. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t062/t06268.html
  37. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t047/t04759.html
  38. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t056/t05686.html
  39. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t076/t07685.html
  40. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t082/t08251.html
  41. ↑ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t087/t08736.html
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