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Łódź

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לאָדזש — ציון ר׳ אליהו חיים מייזל

Łódź — Kever of Reb Eliyahu Chaim Meisel

New Jewish cemetery, ul. Bracka 40, Łódź, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland

  • This cemetery survives largely intact — around 40 hectares and up to 200,000 kevarim, one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Europe — and he lies here, not in the older Wesoła Street cemetery, which was liquidated.
  • Guides place his kever in the second gated section, close to the entrance. We have not published a row number; ask at the gate and confirm the stone before you daven.
  • Polish records and cemetery signage spell him Eljasz Chaim Majzel or Meizel, so use that if you need to ask staff.
  • SURVEYED COORDINATES. The map point on this listing is the cemetery itself, measured on the ground by the ESJF survey — not a town centre. Where a kever is inside an ohel it will still need finding once you are through the gate, but the gate is now something you can navigate to.
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At the kever

Who is buried here.

רבי אליהו חיים מייזל

Rabbi Eliyahu Chaim Meisel

Rav of Lodz

י״ד אייר · 5672 / 1912

Born in Horodok near Volozhin and chief rabbi of Łódź from 1873 until his petirah, remembered above all for pressing the wealthy of the city to build an orphanage, an old-age home, a Jewish hospital and schools — asked once when he would write a sefer, he answered that his seforim were the loan notes he had signed for the poor; his levaya drew well over a hundred thousand people.

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Questions

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Where is the beis hachaim in Łódź?

Łódź — Kever of Reb Eliyahu Chaim Meisel — New Jewish cemetery, ul. Bracka 40, Łódź, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland.

Who is buried in Łódź?

The listing for this beis hachaim records Rabbi Eliyahu Chaim Meisel.

Which airport is closest to Łódź?

Warsaw Chopin (WAW), about 110 km · 68 mi away in a straight line. The other airports within reach are Katowice (KTW) and John Paul II International (KRK). There is no direct flight to the town itself, so the last leg is by road whichever airport you use.