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The Wola District Jewish Cemetery was established in 1806, on a small plot of land then outside the Warsaw city limits. Today it covers an area of 33.4 hectares and more than 200,000 were laid to rest there, including: spiritual leaders, political activists, creators of Jewish culture, people of merit to Polish culture, economy and social life, thousands of nameless victims of the ghetto, in short, many generations of Warsaw Jews.

Property of the Jewish Religious Community in Warsaw, the cemetery is Warsaw’s single active Jewish burial site. Men entering the Jewish cemetery are required to wear a head covering, and the cemetery is closed on Polish and Jewish holidays.

It is a unique listed landmark (since 1973) and a tourist attraction, eagerly visited by tens of thousands of visitors from around the world each year.

Ticket cost: 20 PLN

Database compiled from the tombstones of the Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery . For more information, follow the Cemetery’s Facebook Fan Page