parts: one for Orthodox Jews, one for Reform Jews, one for children, and one for military and state burials. After World War I the cemetery again became overcrowded. Subsequently, a mound or earthwork terrace was erected over the quarter previously reserved for children to allow for more burials. Between 1918 and 1936 fourteen such mounds were created. In the 1930s the entire cemetery was surrounded with a high wall, and in 1939 construction started on a Mausoleum of Jews Fighting for Polish Independence. Works were stopped by the outbreak of World War II and the German occupation of Poland. During World War II the cemetery was partly demolished. German forces used it for mass executions and the burial of victims of Warsaw Ghetto, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, and other mass murders. Those burials included both Jews and non-Jews. Following the Ghetto Uprising, on May 15, 1943 the Germans detonated all buildings in the area of the cemetery, including the synagogue and burial houses. Only a small well survives to this day. Further damage was done to the cemetery during the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, when the front line passed directly through the cemetery. After the war the cemetery was reopened. The Communist authorities of Poland planned a road directly through the middle of the cemetery. The plans were never carried out because of efforts of an American diplomat Alfred Brainard who responded to a call for help from Jewish organizations In the 1990s the neglected cemetery started to be renovated for the first time since the 1930s, mostly by the re-created Warsaw Jewish Commune and the Nissenbaum Family Foundation, as well as the City of Warsaw municipal government. The cemetery is still open, with 20 to 30 new burials every year. Notable interments Solomon Anski, writer (Solomon Zangwill Rappaport), author of "The Dybbuk" Szymon Askenazy, archaeologist Meir Balaban Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, Rosh yeshiva of the Volozhin Yeshiva and author of several major Jewish works Mathias Bersohn, philanthropist Adam Czerniakow (1880–1942), head of the Judenrat in the Warsaw Ghetto Szymon Datner, historian Jacob Dinezon (1852–1919), writer Marek Edelman Maksymilian Fajans, artist, lithographer and photographer Maurycy Fajans, founder of the first steamboat line on the Vistula Alexander Flamberg, chess master Edward Flatau, neurologist Uri Nissan Gnessin, writer Samuel Goldflam, neurologist Ester Rachel Kamińska (1870–1925), the "mother of Yiddish Theater", mother of Ida Kamińska Michał Klepfisz Janusz