Korczak, famous author and physician Izaak Kramsztyk, rabbi and lawyer Aleksander Lesser, painter and art critic Szlomo Zalman Lipszyc, first Chief Rabbi of Warsaw Dow Ber Meisels, rabbi of Kraków and Warsaw Eliyahu Shlomo HaLevi of Lida, Hasidic rabbi Samuel Orgelbrand, publisher of the Universal Encyclopaedia Isaac Loeb Peretz (1852–1915) one of the most important Yiddish language writers of the 19th-20th centuries Samuel Abraham Poznański Józef Różański, communist activist Józef Sandel, art historian and critic Hayyim Selig Slonimski, Hebrew publisher, astronomer, inventor and science author Chaim Soloveitchik, founder of the Brisk rabbinic dynasty & the "brisker method" of Talmudic study Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, author of the Beis Halevi and father of Chaim Soloveitchik Julian Stryjkowski, (born Pesach Stark) 1905–1996, writer, author of "Austeria" "Voices in Darkness" Hipolit Wawelberg, founder of Warsaw Technical College, Szymon Winawer, chess player Lucjan Wolanowski Ludwik Zamenhof, doctor and inventor of Esperanto. See also Jewish cemeteries of Warsaw Monument to the Memory of Children - Victims of the Holocaust History of the Jews in Warsaw References External links Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery at Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Virtual Shtetl Website of an ongoing project of writing down all the names from the Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery "Gesia" Jewish Cemetery Foundation - https://web.archive.org/web/20180131184103/http://www.jewishcem.waw.pl/english/start.htm http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/aa100499.htm Cemeteries in Warsaw Jewish cemeteries in Poland Wola 1806 establishments in Poland Art Nouveau cemeteries Art Nouveau architecture in Poland Holocaust locations in Poland Orthodox Judaism in Poland Reform Judaism in Poland