New Jewish Cemetery (Łódź)
The New Jewish Cemetery Łódź ( Polish: Nowy Cmentarz Żydowski ) is a Jewish cemetery in Łódź in Poland .
In the cemetery, which was rebuilt in 1892, there are around 180,000 graves with 65,000 tombs from the period from 1893 to 1939 and unusual grave slabs in Art Nouveau style on an area of 40 hectares . Around 43,000 victims of the Litzmannstadt ghetto are also buried in the cemetery.
In terms of the number of graves, it is the largest surviving Jewish cemetery in Europe. The Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee is larger at 42 hectares, but the number of graves (115,000 tombs) is smaller.
In 1956 a memorial for victims of the Lodz ghetto and extermination camps was inaugurated in the form of an obelisk and a broken oak. The mausoleum of the manufacturer Izrael Poznański is also located in the cemetery . The tomb is so big that it is called the “last palace in Poznanski”.
In 1980 the cemetery was entered in the monument register. In 1984 the Protection Committee of the Jewish Cemetery was established. Maintenance and construction work has been carried out since the 1990s to save the necropolis from deterioration: the ghetto area has been cleared, the mosaics of the inner stone dome of the Poznański mausoleum have been renovated and the funeral home has been refurbished.
See also
Web links
- jewishlodzcemetery.org ( Memento from April 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- Poland. Jewish cemetery in Lodz
- On the trail of the Łódź Jews. The New Jewish Cemetery on Brackastrasse
- Tombstones in the Jewish cemetery on ul.Bracka and Zmienna, Lodz, Poland, 1998 (photos)
- Virtual Shtetl - The New Jewish Cemetery in Łódź (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ JewishGen, New York ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Baedeker Poland. Verlag Karl Baedeker, Ostfildern 2000 (4th A.), ISBN 3-87504-542-4 , page 57, page 288.
Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 48.5 ″ N , 19 ° 28 ′ 48.8 ″ E