The New Jewish Cemetery ul. Bracka

The Jewish cemetery in ul. Bracka was founded in 1892. Originally it was used as a burial ground for the victims of the choleric disease. There is the Pre-Burial House behind the cemetery wall, for the sake of the rituals preceding the burial itself. The building was raised in 1898, ace. to the design by A. Zeligson. In its neighbourhood the Victims of the Ghetto Memorial was erected in 1956. The next, inner gate opens on the necro­polis proper. Its main axis is the main alley, lined with most monumental tombs and monuments of the indu­strialists' families. The most outstanding form was given to I. K. Poznariski's mausoleum. The image of the necropolis is yet dominated by tho­usands of simple tombstones - the mazevahs. Among them the ohels stand out, i.e. the relatively small tombs usually marking the graves of eminent zaddiks and rab­bis. In the southern part of the cemetery, along ul. Brac-ka, there are the burial plots from the last war. The Jews who had died or had been killed in the Lodz ghetto were buried there. NB: The cemetery is closed on Saturdays and on Jewish Holidays, visiting males are requested to wear headgear