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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nLet’s take a look inside the tomb, where the sarcophagi of Israel and his wife Leonie are located, both made of brown granite from the workshop of Antoni Urbanowski. There are inscriptions with biographical data according to the Jewish calendar. Interestingly, these sarcophagi are empty inside and the remains of the deceased were buried in the ground beneath the mausoleum according to Jewish tradition. However, Pozna\u0144ski was not a staunch conservative, when it came to burial rituals, as tradition dictated for women and men to rest separately in different parts of the cemetery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another aesthetic value of the interior is the mosaic decorating the dome of the tomb with an area of about 100 square metres, which consists of up to two million gold-plated glass pieces. It depicts four spreading palm trees with Bible verses containing the name Izrael. In the dome, there are four windows with decorative stripes that converge at the top of the arch, where there is a circle with a Star of David inside. The author of the mosaic is usually considered to be Antoni Salvati. Nevertheless, it is more likely that the design came from the Berlin workshop of Johann Odorico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Pozna\u0144ski Mausoleum is not the only monument to be found in the Jewish cemetery in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a. Just a short distance away we find the tomb of Markus Silberstein, another of the \u0141\u00f3d\u017a tycoons, Pozna\u0144ski’s peer and rival. His tomb resembles an ancient Greek building, and it is made of beautiful white Carrara marble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n