We went for a walk this afternoon in the Jewish Cemetery near our home. It was a peaceful and sobering place, quite different from the rest of the huge cemetery filled with small garden plots by each headstone. Most of the stones here were configured the same way, with a polished headstone and a flat stone in front of it the size of a coffin. The flat stone was raised a few inches off the ground covering a stone vault. All of the information was engraved on the upright headstones.
In the Jewish tradition, visitors in cemeteries often leave a rock on the stone when they come.
Some memorials, like those below, told of deportations to the Warsaw Ghetto, then exile to Israel.
Huge sections of the cemetery were filled with those killed during WWII. Row after row, young and old. We walked in silence through these sections, feeling heartache.
Here’s a map of the cemetery. The Jewish section is in the lower right corner.
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