JEWISH CEMETERY (Zydowski) 

 This historic Jewish Cemetery (Zydowski) in the north-west of Warsaw is well worth a visit. It is filled with Jewish tombstones and grave monuments in several architectural styles. Quite often the headstones are decorated with ornaments that will keep you guessing about their original meaning, like owls, books etc. Some parts of the cemetery look overgrown by ivy, which only adds to the special athmosphere of this place. The best-known grave here is probably that of Ludwik Zamenhof, creator of the artificial language "Esperanto". There is also a moving monument to Janus Korczak, a Polish-Jewish doctor who was director of a Warsaw orphanage. He decided deliberately not to leave the orphans he cared for when they were deported by the Nazis to the Concentration Camp Treblinka (though he was not forced to go and though he must have known it meant his certain death). Jewish Headstones