Jewish Cemetery

The Jewish cemetery in Łódź is the largest Jewish necropolis in Poland. It was opened at the end of the 19th century, burials of over 200,000 people, including 60,000 victims of the Łódź ghetto can be found there. The most palatial building of the Jewish cemetery is the mausoleum of the Poznański family. Izrael Poznański and his wife are buried in a round building covered with a dome. The cemetery in Łódź is one of the few still-active Jewish cemeteries in Poland.

The decision of the construction so-called "new" Jewish Cemetery was made in 1892. The old Jewish cemetery had been already full. Unfortunately, the old necropolis hasn't preserved at all. It was destroyed by the Germans in 1943. The land for the construction of the new Cemetery was offered by industrialist Izrael Poznański. After his death, he was buried with his wife in a mausoleum embellished with mosaics. Over time, the Jewish cemetery area has been fenced with a brick wall in the neo-Gothic style.

There are about 70,000 tombstones in the Cemetery in Łódź. They are mainly matzevahs, but also graves topped with sculptures can be found. Many Łódź industrialists, people of culture, and local intelligentsia are buried there. In the mass graves, victims of the Łódź ghetto were buried, including about 600 Romani and Sinti people, who were sent to the ghetto in 1941.