Secrets of the House of Eternity (bejt olam). Walk at the Jewish Cemetery.

I invite you to a walk through the mysterious Jewish necropolis, a place hiding extraordinary stories and a tragic past, which stands as a testimony to the community that helped shape Warsaw and Poland.

The cemetery on Okopowa Street is the burial place of many outstanding figures: clerics, scholars, industrialists, artists, writers, soldiers and social activists. It also constitutes a unique gallery of various forms of sepulchral sculpture.

During the walk we will learn, among other things:

• who is a tzadik and who is a rabbi
• on which tombstone inscriptions in Polish appeared for the first time
• where a certain sculptor's phone number is hidden
• where Torah scrolls are buried
• what connected a certain gentleman with a Hollywood film star
• who Bronisław Geremek and Henryk Samsonowicz studied with
• which three qualities a human possesses
• who made a career in the American style
• who walked on foot from Warsaw to Berlin and Paris
• whether James Bond was a woman
• whose face the lion with a mustache has
• and many other curiosities.

Start: 22.03 (Sunday), 11:00 — place: the small square by the ticket office of the Jewish Cemetery, Okopowa 49/51.

Duration of the walk: about 2 hours.

Note: cemetery entrance tickets are required — 20 zł.

Gentlemen: please cover your heads.

The walk will be led by KASIA — blogger and a licensed Warsaw guide.

Tel.: 505 023 782

Participation in the walk is free; however, a tip after the walk will be welcome.

We gently remind you that we put a great deal of substantive and documentary work into preparing the walk so that it is as attractive as possible for you.