List of shtetls

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

Contents

[edit] Shtetls

[edit] Flag of Belarus Belarus

[edit] Flag of Lithuania Lithuania

[edit] Flag of Poland 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)".

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

[edit] Others

[edit] Shtots

Present-day Country City/Town Yiddish Name Romanized Form Pre-World War II

Jewish Population

Flag of Austria Austria Vienna [5] װין Vin 166,000 [1]
Flag of Belarus Belarus Bobruisk [6] באַברויסק Babruisk 21,558 [2]
Flag of Belarus Belarus Brest [7] בריסק Brisk 30,000 [3]
Flag of Belarus Belarus Minsk [8] מינסק Minsk 90,000 [4]
Flag of Belarus Belarus Pinsk [9] פינסק Pinsk 20,200 [5]
Flag of the Czech Republic Czech Republic Prague [10] פּראָג Prog 56,000 [6]
Flag of Hungary Hungary Budapest [11] בודאפעסט Budapest 184,000 [7]
Flag of Latvia Latvia Daugavpils [12] דענענבורג Denenburg 11,106 [8]
Flag of Latvia Latvia Riga [13] ריגע Rige 43,672 [9]
Flag of Lithuania Lithuania Kaunas [14] קאָװנע Kovne 38,000 [10]
Flag of Lithuania Lithuania Vilnius [15] װילנע Vilne 55,000 [11]
Flag of Moldova Moldova Chişinău [16] קעשענעװ Keshenev 70,000 [12]
Flag of Poland Poland Gdańsk [17] דאַנץ Dants
Flag of Poland Poland Kraków [18] קראָקע Kroke 60,000 [13]
Flag of Poland Poland Łódź [19] לאָדז Lodzh 223,000 [14]
Flag of Poland Poland Lublin [20] לובלין Lublin 40,000 [15]
Flag of Poland Poland Poznań [21] פּױזן Poyzn
Flag of Poland Poland Warsaw [22] װאַרשע Varshe 400,000 [16]
Flag of Poland Poland Wrocław [23] ברעסלאַו Breslau 10,309 [17]
Flag of Romania Romania Bucharest [24] בוקארעשט Bukaresht 100,000 [18]
Flag of Romania Romania Cluj-Napoca [25] קלויזענבורג Kloizenberg 16,763 [19]
Flag of Romania Romania Iaşi [26] יאס Yos 51,000 [20]
Flag of Russia Russia Kaliningrad קעניגסבערג Kenigsberg
Flag of Slovakia Slovakia Bratislava [27] פרעשבורג Pressburg 14,882 [21]
Flag of Ukraine Ukraine Chernivtsi [28] טשערנאָוויץ Cernowitz 50,000 [22]
Flag of Ukraine Ukraine Dnipropetrovsk קאַטערינעסלאַוו Katerineslav 100,000 [23]
Flag of Ukraine Ukraine Ivano-Frankivsk סטאַניסלעװ Stanislev 30,000 [24]
Flag of Ukraine Ukraine Kyiv [29] קיִעװ Kiev 175,000 [25]
Flag of Ukraine Ukraine Kharkiv כאַרקעוו Kharkev 130,200 [26]
Flag of Ukraine Ukraine Khmelnytskyi [30] פּראָסקערעוו Praskerev 13,500 [27]
Flag of Ukraine Ukraine L'viv [31] לעמבערג Lemberg 150,000 [28]
Flag of Ukraine Ukraine Odessa [32] אַדעס Ades 180,000 [29]
Flag of Ukraine Ukraine Ternopil [33] טאַרנעפּל Tarnepl 18,000 [30]
Flag of Ukraine Ukraine Vinnitsa [34] וויניצע Vinitse 21,812 [31]
Flag of Ukraine Ukraine Zhytomyr [35] זשיטאָמיר Zhitomir 30,000 [32]
Flag of Germany Germany Frankfurt Frankfurt 26,158 [33]

[edit] References

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  4. ^ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t050/t05064.html
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  8. ^ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t017/t01713.html
  9. ^ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t065/t06521.html
  10. ^ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t037/t03796.html
  11. ^ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t082/t08240.html
  12. ^ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t039/t03920.html
  13. ^ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t016/t01632.html
  14. ^ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t045/t04592.html
  15. ^ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t046/t04651.html
  16. ^ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t083/t08360.html
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  18. ^ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t011/t01192.html
  19. ^ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t015/t01542.html
  20. ^ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t031/t03158.html
  21. ^ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t010/t01065.html
  22. ^ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t014/t01419.html
  23. ^ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t018/t01830.html
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  26. ^ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t038/t03854.html
  27. ^ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t062/t06268.html
  28. ^ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t047/t04759.html
  29. ^ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t056/t05686.html
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  31. ^ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t082/t08251.html
  32. ^ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t087/t08736.html
  33. ^ http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/t022/t02239.html