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Jewish Poland: Cemeteries
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An "ohel" or small mausoleum in a forested area of Warsaw's main Jewish cemetery on Okopowa Street

Yellow flowers bloom in spring amid the graves in a clearing

The cemetery is filled with a forest of trees that started growing after the Second World War

Late afternoon sun penetrates deep into the forested areas of the Warsaw cemetery in spring

A broken tree, in a run-down section of the cemetery, often a symbol used on gravestones to represent an interrupted life

The memorial at the grave of Esther Kaminska, the "mother" of Yiddish theatre in Poland

The desecrated Jewish cemetery in Praga, where thousands of gravestones have been piled in circles on a hilltop

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