This cemetery is extraordinary! Still in use, it contains graves of many distinguished individuals and stones of thousands including a mass grave area containing remains of thousands who died in the Warsaw ghetto. Tis is a beautiful and holy place.

The cemetery is not well publicised and we were taken there by residents of Warsaw. It is very big compared with most other Jewish cemeteries and some of the gravestones date back to the 19th century. If you know anything about the history of the ghetto, some of the names on the graves will be familiar. The headstones themselves are... More

This was in snow when we visited and the cemetery was both beautiful and eerie. We saw the mass graves where 30000 Jews were killed and buried in a big pit. This was shocking and unbelievable . Someone said a memorial prayer in their honour.

Visited the cemetary in March with snow on the ground. Very peaceful, solemn place. It was -15 C and I was the only visitor and walked with the snow crunching underfoot. Should be a mandatory visit for both Jew and non-Jew alike.

Very interesting. Nothing I have seen like it in the States. Gigantic monuments. Very old stones. Somehow the Nazis left it intact.

Worth a visit. Scattered throughout the cemetery, one can find a few of the individual graves buried early in the war as well as newer tombstones that have been left by relatives of those murdered in the Holocaust. Even without the vandalism, the cemetery has fallen into disrepair. Though the cemetery is still in use, the last 50 years of... More

Our daughter lives and works in Warsaw, and this is one of the first places to which she takes her visitors. She has many pictures of the cemetery just before All Saints' Day, an important day to the Polish people. Yes, November 1 is a Christian event and this is a Jewish cemetery. But the Poles remember all their dead... More

Worth seeing especially during the fall, when the leaves turn golden and begin to cover the old graves. Take something to cover your head (judaism rules). You can donate to help maintain the cemetary. There are graves of some famous people, the creator of Esperanto language for instance.

This must be the most beautiful and serene place I ever been to in my life! I know this might sound a bit strange and maybe morbid but if you go there you will understand exactly what I mean. I went here on a sunny day and it was beautiful in the shade of the trees and it was quiet... More