Each card gives, at minimum, the name of the person, his or her last address, and the location of the grave. He, as well as the caretaker at the cemetery itself, has a large chart of the graves. Tombstones in the Lodz Cemetery I visited the cemetery in 1997. Once you get past the first several rows of graves, which are on open ground, you enter a thicket, almost a jungle. The caretaker put on hip boots before going there.
Footing is precarious.
Upheaval of the ground here, and there, has thrown gravestones over. To find the grave of one relative I had to keep reading headstones while the caretaker checked against his chart. Back there, the alignment of the rows and columns is not at all clear. This all volunteer group in Tel Aviv maintains a database of those buried in the Lodz Jewish cemetery, between approximately 1892 and the ghetto's liquidation in August 1944. This information is printed in loose-leaf binders in alphabetical order.