Jewish cemetery on Okopowa Street
The Jewish cemetery on Okopowa Street in Warsaw's Powązki district is one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Europe. The cemetery , which was laid out in 1806, has over 200,000 graves with gravestones on an area of 33 hectares , as well as mass graves of murdered residents of the Warsaw ghetto from the time of the German occupation . The cemetery synagogue was located here .
Graves (selection)
Abraham Ostrzega : Mausoleum of the Three Poets, 1924
- Salomon An-ski , Russian-Jewish writer, journalist and ethnographer
- Szymon Askenazy , Polish historian, diplomat and politician
- Meir Balaban , founder of modern Jewish historiography in Poland
- Adam Czerniakow , engineer and member of the Polish Senate
- Marek Edelman , Polish cardiologist, politician and a commander of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising
- Alexander Flamberg , Polish chess player
- Edward Flatau , Polish medic
- Uri Nissan Gnessin , Hebrew writer
- Samuel Goldflam , Polish neurologist
- Esther Rachel Kamińska , Polish-Jewish actress
- Michał Klepfisz , Polish resistance fighter of the General Jewish Workers' Union in the Warsaw Ghetto
- Izaak Kramsztyk , Polish rabbi, publicist and patriot
- Abraham Morewski , Polish actor, director, writer, translator
- Hirsch David Nomberg , Yiddish writer
- Samuel Orgelbrand , Polish publisher
- Jizchok Leib Perez , Yiddish man of letters
- Julian Stryjkowski , Polish socialist journalist and writer
- Szymon Winawer , Polish chess player
- Lucjan Wolanowski , Polish writer, journalist, traveler, translator
- Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof , Esperantist
See also
Web links
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Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 50.2 ″ N , 20 ° 58 ′ 20 ″ E