The first Jewish cemetery in Lodz was founded in the year 1811 and was situated at the former Wesola Street. In the 50's of the XX century a road and apartment houses were built on cemetery grounds. Today only a memorial stone, erected in 2004 thanks to the initiative of mayor of Lodz, Dr. Jerzy Kropiwnicki, commemorates this area.

The cemetery at Bracka Street was founded in 1892 and it is estimated that about
160 000 people are buried there. It is 39.6 hectares large. During the 100 years of the cemetery's history many meritorious people like rabbis, teachers, industrialists, doctors, politicians, social activists etc. were buried there. Their grave stones are mostly masterpieces of blacksmiths and stonecutters art.

In the cemetery are buried also the victims of one of the most tragic events in mankind history – the Holocaust. There are about 43 000 people buried in the part of the cemetery called Ghetto Field, who died of starvation, illnesses and extenuation. In that place there are very few tombstones. To bring the memory of those people back, the Foundation Monumentum Judaicum Lodzense decided to clean this area, regardless of other works carried out at the cemetery. This became the most important and essential project at the cemetery, to allow the descendants of the victims to put tombstones on the grave of their loved ones and gave the Ghetto Field the character of a military cemetery, since de facto it is one.

Thanks to the kindness and the financial support of Mr. Josef Buchman from Frankfurt on Main, a data base was created of those who were buried in this cemetery. Up to day we were able to assemble a database of approximately 90,000 people. We will not rest in our efforts in completing the database with the information we constantly receive from other sources. If we will be able to receive further donations, we will start to cataloguing and preparing photo records of the remaining gravestones and writing down the information of the deceased we will fill the gaps in our database for the cemetery.

Recently we opened a web site, where everybody will be able to check the names of people buried in particular quarters of the cemetery. The detailed information about the accurate place of burial will be available in the LODZ JEWS ARCHIVE being created by the Foundation Monumentum Judaicum Lodzense together with the Jewish Community of Lodz at 18 Pomorska Street.