Stary Cmentarz Żydowski w Łodzi

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Old Jewish cemetery in Łódź - non-existent Jewish cemetery in Bałuty on ul. Happy in Lodz. The Jewish cemetery was founded on April 4, 1811, on land purchased from Adam and Magdalena Lipiński - townsmen of Łódź and neighboring lands of others . Earlier, the Jews who died in Łódź were buried in the Jewish cemeteries in nearby Lutomiersk and Stryków. The cemetery originally had an area of 0.06 ha, but as early as in the 1880s, there was no room for the enlarged necropolis. Many Lodz merchants, teachers, industrialists, social and religious activists were buried here - in total, over 13,000. people who died of Jewish nationality . The most famous buried there were Rabbi Chaskiel Naumberg, Pinkus Zajdler, Pinkus Sonenberg, Mojżesz Fajtłowicz, Lejzer Perlmutter and Kalman Poznański. There were graves of Silberstein, Prussak and Rosenblatt family members . Due to the lack of space for burials, on September 30, 1888, the Synagogue Supervision asked Władysław Pieńkowski, the mayor of the city, for permission to enlarge the cemetery or establish a new one. Eventually, the cemetery was closed on November 10, 1892. After 1892, however, funerals occurred sporadically . During the war in 1914, when the new cemetery was unavailable, it was still buried on the old one. The last burial at Wesoła was probably made in 1922. Ephraim Lande was buried at the ohel of his father Symhe Binem. In the interwar period, the pre-burial house served as a hospital for the mentally ill. It also functioned during World War II . In 1942, a necropolis at ul. Merry was devastated. Some matzevot were dismantled and used for road hardening . Probably some of the tombstones from the first Jewish necropolis in Łódź were used to harden the surface and pave the courtyards, among others at Zgierska and Bazarowa Streets. The hospital (former pre-funeral house) for the mentally ill was liquidated in September 1942 (the patients were murdered in the extermination center in Chełmno on the Ner), and the abandoned building has a carpentry department . Eventually, the cemetery was liquidated in 1949 - during the construction of West Street, and the remaining area was designated by the then authorities for the construction of houses. Liquidation took place unlawfully, there was no exhumation of remains buried . Currently, the western section of the Western street runs through the cemetery area, blocks were built next to it. A memorial to the necropolis is today fragments of walls at the back of tenements at Rybna and Bazarowa Streets. At ul. Rybna has a memorial obelisk with a plaque. When renovating ul. Western and earthworks in the estate on this street still find human remains from the former cemetery, because in the 1950s no exhumation of corpses was carried out. [source: Wikipedia, 655187]