Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery
The Jewish cemetery on Okopowa street in the Warsaw district Powązki is one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Europe. At the cemetery, which was newly created in 1806, are located on an area of 33 ha over 200,000 tombs with grave stones, as well as mass graves of murdered residents of the Warsaw Ghetto from the time of the German occupation. Here was the cemetery Synagogue.
Graves (selection)
- At Salomon skis, Russian-Jewish writer, journalist and ethnographer
- Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian, diplomat and politician
- Meir Balaban, founder of modern Jewish historiography in Poland
- Adam Czerniaków, engineer and member of the Polish Senate
- Marek Edelman, Polish cardiologist, politician and commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
- Alexander Flamberge, Polish chess player
- Edward Flatau, Polish physician
- Uri Nissan Gnessins, Hebrew writer
- Samuel Goldflam, Polish neurologist
- Esther Rachel Kaminska, Polish- Jewish actress
- Michał Klepfisz, Polish resistance fighters of the General Jewish Labor Union in the Warsaw Ghetto
- Izaak Kramsztyk, Polish rabbi, journalist and patriot
- Abraham Morewski, Polish actor, director, writer, translator
- David Hirsch Nomberg, Yiddish writer
- Samuel Orgelbrand, Polish Publisher
- Jizchok Leib Peretz, Yiddish writer
- Julian Stryjkowski, Polish socialist journalist and writer
- Szymon Winawer, Polish chess player
- Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish writer, journalist, traveler, translator
- Ludwik Zamenhof Lejzer, esperantist