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BRÓDNO JEWISH CEMETERY

• The oldest existing Jewish cemetery in Warsaw.

• The cemetery’s courtyard displays the oldest matzevot in Warsaw (dated 1795 and 1798) and a tombstone with restored layers of color.

• The largest Jewish cemetery in Poland in terms of the number of buried there: some 250,000 burials between 1743 and 1940.

• Burials there ceased with the closing of the Warsaw Ghetto walls on November 16, 1940.

• The cemetery covers an area of 14.6 hectares. Currently over a hectare of the cemetery land remains outside its current fencing and is not in the possession of the Jewish Religious Community in Warsaw; the exposes the burials and the remains of several thousand people to persistent desecration.

• Between 1948 and 1951, at the behest of the communist authorities, the surviving tombstones were dislodged. Some were used as a building material while the rest were piled up for further deportation.

• After the war, the cemetery area was used as a park and a forest was planted on the exposed sand dunes.

• Some 40,000 tombstones stacked like domino cubes now form the spectral landscape of the site.

• In the mid-1980s, through the efforts of the Nissenbaum Family Foundation, the necropolis was fenced off, received a monumental gate decorated with bas-reliefs referring to its history, and its main avenue was paved.

• In December 2012, the cemetery was reclaimed by the Jewish Religious Community in Warsaw, which rebuilt its fence and erected pavilions.

• In February 2018, the "Beit Almin - the House of Eternity" Exhibition at the cemetery opened to the public; it presents the history of the Bródno necropolis as well as the ritual and cultural aspects of death and burial in Jewish tradition.

Ticket cost: 20PLN

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