Jewish cemeteries of Warsaw

[1] It is now the site of numerous overgrown and abandoned graves and crypts, having fallen in disrepair after the Nazi invasion of Poland and subsequent Holocaust.

Although it was closed down during World War II, after the war it was reopened and a small portion of it remains active, serving Warsaw's small remaining Jewish population.

Bródno Jewish Cemetery was once much bigger than the earlier cemetery and served both the Jews of the right-bank borough of Praga and poorer Jews of other boroughs of the city of Warsaw.

However, after the German occupation of Poland in 1939 and the start of the Holocaust, most of it was demolished and the headstones were used as street pavement.

After the war the remaining tombstones were recovered from various towns in Poland and moved back to the cemetery.

The bottom left black & white picture shows bodies below a stone lattice work. The stone lattice work is visible between two marker stones in the colour picture.
The board at the entrance that shows the structure and history of the Okopowa Street cemetery