historia-polski:The Jewish Cemetery on Bracka street in Łódź The first Jewish Cemetery in Łódź was e
historia-polski:The Jewish Cemetery on Bracka street in Łódź The first Jewish Cemetery in Łódź was established in 1811 on Wesoła street. In the 1950s the location of the cemetery was converted into a housing complex. Today its existence is marked by a stone obelisk erected in 2004 through an initiative put forth by the city president, Dr. Jerzy Kropiwnicki. The Bracka street cemetery was established in 1892. An estimated 160,000 people are buried within its grounds, which stretch over an area of 98 acres, making it one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Europe. Over the course of its existence it became the final resting place to many prominent members of the Jewish community who were instrumental in the development of the city over the course of its history. Rabbis, factory owners, doctors, politicians, and activists are among the many buried there. Their monuments are often works of art in stone.The cemetery is also a place of rest for the victims of one of the greatest tragedies in human history - the Holocaust. In the section of the cemetery know as the “Ghetto Field” about 43,000 victims of the Łódź Ghetto are buried, who died as the result of disease and starvation. Their graves are rarely marked by a matzeva. In an attempt to restore the cemetery and the memory of its inhabitants a foundation was established. In spite of other restorative work being done at the cemetery, the “Ghetto Field” section was a top priority, so that the living descendants of those who perished could properly mark the resting place of their loved ones. The section itself became a kind of war memorial. (source)fot: Agnieszka Strzelecka -- source link