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Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery

3 reviews of Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery

Wojskowy Powązki Cemetery, the remarkable

Wojskowy Powązki Cemetery, is at Powązkowska 43, away from the ancient cemetery (Powązki Cemetery). The cemetery is famous as the most famous characters, actors, musicians, soldiers and athletes are buried here. It took me a while to find it, although it's very famous, maps of Warsaw street usually stop before the cemetery, it's about a 15 minute walk and there is only one bus that passes in front of it, so it's easy not to see it. Past another cemetery, continue straight, you walk, you walk, pass a gas station, cross a bridge over a road and when you think you have the wrong place it appears! But the truth is it's worth it and it's best if you can go with a Polish person to me explain battles and military areas, it also depends on the knowledge you have of the "famous people".

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Overwhelming and necessary

Sobrecogedor y necesario

Este pasado mayo, por circunstancias de la vida, tuve que viajar a Varsovia y aunque el cementerio judío de Varsovia se considera una atracción "menor" de las que ofrece la ciudad, sin lugar a dudas es un lugar que no deberíamos dejar de visitar. Integrado en el antiguo gheto judío de Varsovia da cobijo a más de 200.000 lápidas en un área de 33,3 hectáreas, que se dice pronto. Uno se puede llegar a figurar las dimensiones que supone hasta que estás dentro de él y comienzas a caminar entre lápidas. Los árboles y las lápidas se funden en un complejo cargado de historia, en el que uno puede contemplar, desde un paredón donde fueron exterminadas decenas de miles de vidas, hasta impactos de bala en las tumbas, fruto de las persecuciones de judíos y polacos por parte de las tropas de ocupación del Tercer Reich. Un recinto en el que se mezclan la intimidad de los árboles, la historia de los oprimidos, el silencio de los muertos y la sobrecogedora naturaleza de lo que el ser humano puede llegar a hacer.
This past May, life circumstances, I had to travel to Warsaw and although the Jewish cemetery in Warsaw is considered a "minor" attraction that the city offers, without a doubt it is a place we should not miss. Integrated in the old Jewish ghetto of Warsaw is home to over 200,000 gravestones in an area of ​​33.3 hectares, said soon. One can get to include dimensions which means until you're into it and start walking between headstones. Trees and grave merge into a complex full of history, in which one can see, from a wall where they were exterminated tens of thousands of lives, to bullet holes in the tombs, the result of the persecution of Jews and Poles by part of the occupation forces of the Third Reich. An enclosure in which the privacy of the trees are mixed, the history of the oppressed, the silence of the dead and the overwhelming nature of what humans might do.
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Recommended visit

Visitée recommandée

Excellent
Mémoire, émotion, tranquillité, intéressant. Visitée recommandée.
Memory, emotion, tranquility, interesting. Recommended visit.
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