Jewish Community of

Gdańsk

Gdańsk, Poland

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Searchable Databases & additional information

1. •Find other researchers for your shtetl by searching JGFF Town Search
   

2. •Search Yad Vashem
   

3. •United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
   

4. •Yizkor Books (3):
   

1. ◦Treasures of a Destroyed Community (Detroit, 1980)
   

2. ◦Pinkas ha-kehilot; entsiklopediya shel ha-yishuvim le-min hivasdam ve-ad le-aher shoat milhemet ha-olam ha-sheniya: Poland vol. 6: Poznan and Pomerania Districts; Gdansk (Jerusalem, 1999)
   

3. ◦Yehude Danzig 1840-1943: hit'arut, maavak, hatzala (Israel, 1983)
   

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Additional information for Gdańsk:

1. •The JewishGen website for Gdańsk / Danzig.
   

        JewishGen GerSIG

1. •Museum of the History of Polish Jews
   

1. •Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego (1880-1902), II, pp. 513-532: "Gdańsk".
   

2. •Pinkas HaKehilot, Poland, Vol. 6 (1999), pp. 33-42: "Gdańsk".
   

3. •Encyclopedia of Jewish Life (2001), pp. 419-420: "Gdansk".
   

4. •Еврейская энциклопедия (1906-1913), "Данциг, город".
   

Other web sites:

Wiesenthal Center

Litvak Portal

Gdańsk, Poland

Gdańsk [Pol], Danzig [Ger], Dantsik [Yid], Gduńsk [Kashub], Dantzig [Rus], Dantsk

Yiddish: דאנציג / דאַנצק

Poland's main seaport, on the Baltic Sea. Center of Eastern Pomerania. Between the two World Wars, a Free City.

Jewish Population: 2,535 (in 1890), 2,717 (1910)

1900: 

Danzig, Westpreußen, Preußen, Germany

1930: 

Danzig, Gdańsk województwo, Poland

54° 22′ 0″ N, 18° 38′ 0″ E