A priceless treasure of Jewish Warsaw. Established in 1806, it is one of the last remaining open and active Jewish cemeteries in Poland. During World War II it was encompassed in the Warsaw Ghetto. Around 200,000 tombstones can be found at the cemetery, many of which have great historical and artistic value. Among the grandest are: the Mausoleum of the Three Writers (Icchok Lejb Perec, Szymon An-ski and Jakub Dinezon) by sculptor Abraham Ostrzega, and the monument of the grave of the great actress from Warsaw’s Jewish Theatre, Ester Rachel Kamińska, created by Szymon Kratka.
Additionally, many great people - important for both the Jewish nation as well as for Warsaw and Poland - are laid to rest at the Jewish cemetery. The rabbi of the Praga district Jeszaja Muszkat (buried in 1866) and the first Rabbi of Warsaw Szlomo Zalman Lipszyc (who died in 1839) both rest at the cemetery. Among the secular persons buried at the Jewish Cemetery are the creator of Esperanto, Ludwik Zamenhoff, Adam Czerniaków (the head of the Warsaw Jewish community in the Warsaw Ghetto), as well as previously mentioned writer Icchok Lejb Perec and actress Ester Rachel Kamińska.
There is also a monument over the symbolic grave of Janusz Korczak (children’s author and pedagogue, murdered during the Holocaust together with the children from his orphanage), which shows him walking to the German Nazi concentration camp with the children.