Tuesday, December 05, 2006


Rookwood Cemetery - Western Sydney. This is a huge 300 hectare burial spot for over 600, 000 Australians starting in 1867. There are war memorials, memorial gardens for fallen war dead, educational tours and it provides a stop on ghost tours in Sydney. The first image is the pioneer portion. I just looked at one gravestone and it documented a British couple the man born in Suffolk and the woman born in Essex in the 1830s. You could clearly see the impact of WW1 on all family life. The second picture shows the lawn cemetery portion that gets regular maintenance and the exotic palm trees and Norfolk pines. The last image is the Jewish war memorial with remembrances of all the concentration camps: Babi-yar, Theresienstadt, Treblinka, Dachau, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen [to name just a few].
These are the words on the Jewish war memorial to the 6 million:

"This is in memory of the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis during the war 1939-1945. May the world never again witness such inhumanity of man against man."

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