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Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: the old Jewish cemetery in Wrocław
From: "philippe.amard" <philippe.amard@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 22:43:00 +0100
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Noir+et+Blanc/For-Rent-P1010490-w.jpg.html

No stacking here - if no one pays before the date the city has the  
bones taken out and stacked with others in a specific location.

If you're curious you might want to visit the catacombes in Paris that  
hold about 6,000,000 squeletons some dating back to the 17th century.
http://www.catacombes.paris.fr/

Philippe



Le 6 janv. 14 à 22:33, Paul Braun a écrit :

> On 1/6/14 14:56 : , Chris Crawford wrote:
>> Graves in the non-Jewish cemetery get RE-USED if the family stops  
>> paying?
>> Wow. In the US, graves are not reused and families do not have to pay
>> maintenance fees. That's for all cemeteries, not just Jewish ones.
>>
>> So, how is a grave reused? Do they pull out the body, and replace  
>> it with
>> a new one, or do they stack more coffins on top of the old ones?
>>
> While I'm aware of the practice (I had one friend who's father is  
> buried
> somewhere in Eastern Europe, and she had to pay to keep him to  
> himself),
> I've never been made aware of the actual procedure.  I think it's more
> of a stacking thing.
>
> Ken's right - we're used to "one plot, one body, forever and ever,  
> Amen"
> (unless a really wealthy devloper pays the right amount of bribe money
> to a commissioner to get a cemetery relocated for a new condo
> development).  But we do have vast amounts of unused land here as  
> well.
>
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