Founded in 1892, at 42ha and with getting on for 180,000 bodies in it Łódź’s Jewish Cemetery is, somewhat arguably, the largest Jewish cemetery in Europe, and also contains the biggest Jewish mausoleum (to Israel Poznański) in the world; the brooding structure looks like something from the pages of Edgar Allen Poe. The parents of Julian Tuwim and Arthur Rubinstein are buried there, as are many of the prominent industrialist families of the city, and the cemetery contains approximately 100 listed monuments. There are several Holocaust reminders, including the ghetto field, the resting place of an estimated 45,000 victims of Fascism. Much of the cemetery lies overgrown and abandoned, though visitors should keep an eye out for the massive trenches by the wall. This is where a 'clean-up squad' of around 800 Jews were forced to dig their own graves in 1944. The Nazis, in full retreat from the advancing Soviets, didn’t have time to murder them, and the empty graves have been left as a symbolic reminder. The entrance is on ul. Zmienna.