Somber

Cemetery

We made a somber visit to the local Hajdú cemetery. The husband of one of our flat neighbors when we lived here died; we went with his widow to bring flowers and pay our respects. Later in the same day, we did the same thing with another previous flat neighbor for the same reason.

We were struck by differences between this cemetery and those in the US. Virtually every gravesite was an above ground granite structure that accommodated a family; very few individual gravesites. And, flowers were everywhere; usually multiple flower arrangements on every gravesite. Conveniently, several flower shops were located at the cemetery entrance. We were also struck by the gravesite of an entire nine-person family that all died on the same date in 1944, adults and children included. They were slaughtered by the Germans. Somber.