Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery - Notable Interments

Notable Interments

  • Solomon Anski, writer (Solomon Zangwill Rappaport), author of "The Dybbuk"
  • Szymon Askenazy, archaeologist
  • Meir Balaban
  • Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, Rosh yeshiva of the Volozhin Yeshiva and author of several major Jewish works
  • Mathias Bersohn, philanthropist
  • Adam Czerniakow, head of the Judenrat in the Warsaw Ghetto
  • Szymon Datner, historian
  • Jacob Dinezon (1852–1919), writer
  • Marek Edelman
  • Maksymilian Fajans, artist, lithographer and photographer
  • Maurycy Fajans, founder of the first steamboat line on the Vistula
  • Alexander Flamberg, chess master
  • Edward Flatau, neurologist
  • Uri Nissan Gnessin, writer
  • Samuel Goldflam, neurologist
  • Esther Rachel Kaminska (1870–1925), the "mother of Yiddish Theater", mother of Ida Kaminska
  • Michał Klepfisz
  • Izaak Kramsztyk, rabbi and lawyer
  • Aleksander Lesser, painter and art critic
  • Dow Ber Meisels, rabbi of Kraków and Warsaw
  • Samuel Orgelbrand, publisher of the Universal Encyclopaedia
  • Isaac Loeb Peretz (1852–1915) one of the most important Yiddish language writers of the 19th-20th centuries
  • Samuel Abraham Poznański
  • Józef Różański, communist activist
  • Hayyim Selig Slonimski, Hebrew publisher, astronomer, inventor and science author
  • Chaim Soloveitchik, founder of the Brisk rabbinic dynasty & the "brisker method" of Talmudic study
  • Julian Stryjkowski, (born Pesach Stark) 1905-1996, writer, author of "Austeria" "Voices in Darkness"
  • Hipolit Wawelberg, founder of Warsaw Technical College,
  • Szymon Winawer, chess player
  • Lucjan Wolanowski
  • Ludwik Zamenhof, doctor and inventor of Esperanto.

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