JEWISH CEMETERY (CMENTARZ ZYDOWSKI)
One of the city's must-see monuments, it is a fabulous place of remembrance and an important symbol. It is the largest Jewish cemetery in Europe, covering its 14 hectares with tens of thousands of tombstones, for a total of some 180,000 remains. Founded and consecrated in 1892, the cemetery remained in operation for only a short time. It miraculously escaped Nazi exactions and war damage, allowing us to admire the site in all its splendor. Some of the tombs are true architectural masterpieces, such as the vault belonging to the Pozńanski family, the city's immense tycoon. Part of this immense cemetery has been left abandoned, so it exudes a unique atmosphere, with some steles covered in moss and grass. The immense cemetery is a veritable city of tombs, inviting visitors to reflect on the fate of the Jews of Central Europe and their world engulfed by Nazism. Next to the cemetery is the sordid ghetto field, where some 45,000 victims of the Nazis were hastily buried. In 1944, torturers forced 800 Jews to dig their own graves before murdering them. The cemetery is a memorial not only to the ghetto, but also to a time when Jewish life in Poland was vibrant (perhaps even the most vibrant, as the vaults of the textile magnates testify).
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