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Funeral home of House of Purification
The first Jewish Cemetery in Lodz was established in 1811.This Jewish cemetery at Bracka street was founded in 1892 and is the largest Jewish cemetery in Europe. There are 68,000 surviving tombstones, and about 160,000 people are buried there. One part of the Cemetery is called “Ghetto Field” some 43 000 victims from the Ghetto Lodz, who died from hunger and consumption, are buried there the main inner entrance, To the area of the Jewish Cemetery in Łódź - Symbolizing the transition from the living to the dead. Referring to Gothic architecture, the gate was also designed by Adolf Seligsohn,
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