The Warsaw Jewish Cemetery is one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Europe and in the world. Located on Warsaw's Okopowa Street and abutting the Christian Powązki Cemetery, the Jewish necropolis was established in 1806 and occupies 33 hectares of land. The cemetery contains over 250,000 marked graves, as well as mass graves of victims of the Warsaw Ghetto. Although the cemetery was closed down during World War II, after the war it was reopened and a small portion of it remains active, serving Warsaw's existing Jewish population.
Graves at Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery
Jewish graves in Warsaw
Monumental grave of Wilhelm and Ewa Landau
Less elaborate tombstones
Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit, was a Polish Jewish pediatrician, educator, children's author and pedagogue known as Pan Doktor or Stary Doktor. He was an early children's rights advocate, in 1919 drafting a children's constitution.
Janusz Korczak with the children in 1920s
Korczak's orphanage is still in operation at 6 Jaktorowska Street
Last issue of Mały Przegląd (Little Review) dated 1 September 1939
Korczak's filling card prepared during compulsory registration of physicians ordered by the German occupation authorities in Warsaw in 1940