JACOB JR, MY JEWISH WORLD. JEWISH CEMETERY IN OKAPOVA STREET. WARSZAWA/POLAND.


Sunday, Iyar 21, 5775. May 10, 2015.


Shalom! World. Jewish Cemetery in Okapova Street - Warszawa/Poland

The turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries also marked the establishment of the Warszawa Jewish Commune and the estabilishment of the Jewish Cemetery in Okapova Street.

Founded in 1806, it is one of the few currently operating Jewish cemeteries in Poland. Over 250.000 tombstones survived here, many of high artistic value. Many prominent figures were buried at the cemetery - the creator of Esperanto, Ludwik Zamenhof, a writer Isaac Leib Peretz, an actress Esther Rachel Kaminska, and numerous rabbis and tzaddikim. There are also mass graves from World War II and graves of residents of the Warszawa Ghetto, such as leaders of the Judenrat Adam Czermiakow and Professor Majer Balaban. In 2009, Marek Edelman was buried here - the last leader of the Warszawa Ghetto Uprising, but also an outstanding cardiologist, social activist and opposiotionist. 



Shalom! Aleichem.

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