Jewish Cemetery

This guide to the Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw opens with archaeology students who, shut out of digs abroad in 2020, asked to excavate the largest Jewish cemetery in Poland instead, over the objections of the rabbinical commission guarding it. You'll hear the director's blunt first reaction to the idea, and what the team found beneath decades of overgrowth: a forgotten cobblestone path, toppled headstones, and ritual glass vessels. It also traces who rests among the roughly quarter million graves here, including close to a hundred thousand who died in the Warsaw Ghetto nearby.