- The cemetery was established in the Bródno quarter (ul. Św. Wincentego) in 1780. Destroyed by the Nazis in 1941. About 1,000 tombstones preserved. The entrance gate with pylons decorated with bas-reliefs raised in memory of the cemetery founder Shmul Zbytkower and the victims of the Holocaust. The gate was designed by D. Kowalski, T. Pastuszek and L. Waszkiewicz.
- The cemetery at ul. Okopowa 49/51 (pictures below) was established in 1806 and functions until now. There are about 200,000 tombstones. Among them we find those of the following well-known Jews: Szymon Askenazy (1867-1935), a historian; Matias Bersohn (1824- 1908), a philantropist and collector; Eng. Adam Czerniakow (1880-1942), chairman of the Warsaw Jewish wish Community (Judenrat) in the Warsaw ghetto; Hipolit Wawelberg (1844-1901 ), a co-founder of the Technical High School; Ludwik Zamenhof (1859- 1917), a physician, author of the Esperanto language; Ester Rachel Kamińska (1870-1925), an actress; Chaim Zelig Słonimski (1810-1904), a mathematician and astronomer. The tombstone of Ber Sonneberg- berg sculpted by D. Frydlender in 1822. The mausoleum- of three writers Szymon An-ski (Salomon Zanwel Rapaport, 1863-1919), Icchak Lejb Perec (1852- 1915) and Jakub Dinezon (1856- 1919) sculpted by Abraham Ostrzega. The cemetery contains a symbolic grave of Janusz Korczak (Henryk Goldszmit, 1878- 1942) topped with a monument designed by M. Smorczewski in 1982.
