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  • Indianapolis, Indiana. September 11 Memorial 9/11
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  • Wenceslas Square. Velvet Revolution memorial. Prague, Czech Republic.
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  • Wenceslas Square. Velvet Revolution memorial. Prague, Czech Republic.
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  • In the Martyr's section of the Behesht Zahra cemetery in Tehran, Iran, a family memorializes a family member killed during the Iran-Iraq war 1980-1988. Other parts of the cemetery are devoted to the rest of the population. Memorializing family members who have died is an important part of Islamic and Persian culture in Iran and follows a prescribed series of graveside visits. Iranians meet at the graves, bringing food to share with each other and passersby who pay their respects.
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  • In the Martyr's section of the Behesht Zahra cemetery in Tehran, Iran, a family memorializes a family member killed during the Iran-Iraq war 1980-1988. Other parts of the cemetery are devoted to the rest of the population. Memorializing family members who have died is an important part of Islamic and Persian culture in Iran and follows a prescribed series of graveside visits. Iranians meet at the graves, bringing food to share with each other and passersby who pay their respects.
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  • Lodz, Poland main street in the rain. (Piotrkowska St.) Brownze statue of Tuwims' Bench. (in memory of local poet Julian Tuwim.)
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  • Lodz, Poland cemetery on All Saints Day. Candles in the rain make plinking and sizzling sound when hit by raindrops.
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  • Japanese graves in a cemetery on Big Island, Hawaii. USA.
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  • Day of the Dead festival honoring ancestors in a graveyard vigil in Mixquic, Mexico, outside Mexico City.
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  • Bone Chapel at Kudowa Zdroj, Poland.
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  • Young girl lighting a candle under a large stone cross outside the Bone Chapel at Kudowa Zdroj, Poland.
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  • Stradomia Wierzchnia village, Poland. Cemetery with church and bicycles against fence on All Saints Day.
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  • Stradomia Wierzchnia village cemetery, Poland. All Saints Day.
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  • Stradomia Wierzchnia village cemetery, Poland. All Saints Day.
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  • Woman with blue umbrella, blurred in motion. Lodz, Poland cemetery on All Saints Day.
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  • Lodz, Poland cemetery in the rain on All Saints Day.
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  • Zadzim Cemetery, Poland. All Saints Day. Olga and her cousin visit relatives graves.
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  • Zadzim Cemetery, Poland. All Saints Day.
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  • Ewa Ledochowicz family, All Saints Day. Lodz, Poland. Visiting one of many family member's graves. Ewa's mother in law, Honorata Wierzonska.
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  • Lodz, Poland cemetery on All Saints Day.
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  • Kazimierz, Poland cemetery on All Saints Day. Bory's mother visits with a relative.
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  • PKazimierz, Poland cemetery on All Saints Day. Wiezowski/Ledochowicz family visits relatives' graves. Borys is reunited with his dead father's brother, who has emotional problems and is in a wheelchair because he has one leg.
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  • Ewa Ledochowicz family on All Saints Day. Lodz, Poland. Borys and Olga light candles.
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  • Lodz, Poland, cemetery on All Saints Day. Man whose wife died earlier in the year decorates her grave.
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  • Olga Ledochowicz at her grandmother's apartment in Lodz for All Saints Day dinner. .Photo in frame is her several years before. Lodz, Poland.
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  • Preparing for All Saints Day. Powazek Cemetery. Warsaw, Poland.
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  • Preparing for All Saints Day. Powazek Cemetery. Warsaw, Poland. Evening of the day before.
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  • Preparing for All Saints Day. Powazek Cemetery. Warsaw, Poland.
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  • Preparing for All Saints Day. Powazek Cemetery. Warsaw, Poland. Aleksandra Goldanowska.
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  • Preparing for All Saints Day. Powazek Cemetery. Warsaw, Poland.
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  • All Saints Day. Lodz, Poland.
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  • Lodz, Poland cemetery on All Saints Day.
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  • Preparing for All Saints Day. Powazek Cemetery. Warsaw, Poland.
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  • Warsaw, Poland. Powazek Cemetery on All Saints Day.
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  • Preparing for All Saints Day. Powazek Cemetery. Warsaw, Poland.
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  • Piles of leaves and trash as the graveyard is cleaned preparing for All Saints Day. Powazek Cemetery. Warsaw, Poland.
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  • Preparing for All Saints Day. Powazek Cemetery. Warsaw, Poland.
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  • Preparing for All Saints Day. Powazek Cemetery. Warsaw, Poland.
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  • Preparing for All Saints Day. Powazek Cemetery. Warsaw, Poland.
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  • Tombstone of a French-Indian war soldier with Fall foliage in Farmington, Connecticut, New England, USA.
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  • Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, California is the final resting place of many movie stars. The cemetery also has a funeral chapel equipped for live webcasts of funeral services and "LifeStory" tributes. Here three friends of a slain rapper uses the touch screen to listen to music created by her dead friend and watch a video clips and snapshots from his life.
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  • Tombstone of a French-Indian war soldier with Fall foliage in Farmington, Connecticut, New England, USA.
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  • Stacked aboveground graves in a cemetery overlooking Lake Aititlan in Solola, Guatemala.
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  • Czestochowa, Poland. Jasna Gora Monastery (Black Madonna) painting in chapel.
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  • ITA_050923_29_rwx.Cemetery in Radicofani, Italy (near Pienza) with photos on a gravestone..
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  • Cemetery in Radicofani, Italy (near Pienza) with photos on a gravestone.
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  • Cemetery in Radicofani, Italy (near Pienza) with photos on a gravestone.
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  • ICE_040514_014_rwx.Holavallagardur Cemetery, Reykjavik, Iceland..
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  • Holavallagardur Cemetery, Reykjavik, Iceland.
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  • Arc de Triumph close-up with billowing French flag. Paris, France.
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  • Ritual waters from the Ganges River are poured onto the face of the body of Savitridevi Mishra, who lived near the cremation grounds of Jalasi Ghat. Wrapped in a shroud of yellow and gold and decorated with marigold garlands, the woman will be burned upon a funeral pyre at the cremation grounds in a rite officiated by the eldest living male in her family.
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  • Durga Tiwari, 35, attends to her dead mother, Savitridevi Mishra, just before she is taken to the cremation grounds of Jalasi Ghat.
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  • Durga Tiwari, 35, is comforted by a family member as her mother, Savitridevi Mishra, is taken to the cremation grounds of Jalasi Ghat.
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  • Ascetic Hindu Priest--called a Sadhu, cloaks himself in a funeral shroud used to adorn bodies before they are cremated (left behind by mourners) at the main burning ghat in Varanasi.
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  • A young Nepalese boy studying sanskrit at an ashram in Varanasi was swimming with friends in the Ganges River and drowned.
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  • This is the last letter written by a young Nepalese boy studying sanskrit at an ashram in Varanasi who was swimming with friends in the Ganges River and drowned.
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  • These bells adorn the top of a shrine overlooking the Ganges river at the Harishchandra Ghat, Varanasi, India. The Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganges River.
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  • A man dries the clothes he just washed in the Ganges in the heat of a burning funeral pyre at the Harishchandra cremation grounds. The Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganges River.
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  • A young girl in a rowboad sells floating votive candles to mourners and also tourists near the Dashashwamedh Ghat, on the Ganges River in Varanasi, India.
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  • A young girl in a rowboad sells floating votive candles to mourners and also tourists near the Dashashwamedh Ghat, on the Ganges River in Varanasi, India.
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  • A young Nepalese boy studying sanskrit at an ashram in Varanasi was swimming with friends in the Ganges River and drowned. Here his friend (to the right of the man with the beard) who was swimming with him tells the authorities how he drowned right after the boy disappeared beneath the murky waters of the Ganges. His teacher called his parents in Kathmandu but did not tell the reason why. When his father, Bhim Prasad Bastola, arrived in Varanasi on a bus, he was told of the death of his 15-year-old son Chudamani Bastola and the cremation ceremony was held shortly thereafter.
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  • Death is part of the fabric of life for Hindus and like much of Indian society, takes place in open view. In the early morning men and women wash clothes in the river, slapping dhoti, saris, and other pieces of clothing against rocks and cement slabs as others tend to the bodies burning on the shore at Harishchandra Ghat.
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  • Bodies arrive day and night from far and near to be cremated at Jalasi Ghat, the cremation grounds at Manikarnika Ghat, Varanasi, India. One hundred or more times a day male family members carry a loved one's body through the narrow streets on a bamboo litter to the Ganges River shore?a place of pilgrimage for Hindus during life, and at death. Not every Hindu can be cremated here, because of transportation costs and logistical considerations. Sometimes a body is burned in one location and the ashes brought to Varanasi.
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  • A lone goat at the Harishchandra Ghat eats marigold garlands that once adorned the bodies dipped into the Ganges River for final ritual baths before cremation in Varansi, India. The Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganges River.
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  • Gopal Jee Singh, 65, from Bihar, holds a butter lamp above his dead wife Subhadra Singh, 60 for a local photographer who takes photographs at the burning ghats and sells prints to families that want a keepsake. Subhadra died last night at 8 p.m. and he and his sons brought her here to Varanasi for the funeral rite, arriving at 3 a.m..Mr. Singh says that his wife didn't want to be cremated and so he and their sons brought her here to the Ganges for a different funeral ritual then most others have.
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  • Bodies arrive day and night from far and near to be cremated at Jalasi Ghat, the cremation grounds at Manikarnika Ghat on the Ganges River in Varanasi, India. One hundred or more times a day male family members carry a loved one's body through the narrow streets on a bamboo litter to the Ganges River shore, a place of pilgrimage for Hindus during life, and at death. Not every Hindu can be cremated here, because of transportation costs and logistical considerations.
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  • The eldest son, Brajesh Kumar Singh, accompanies the body of his mother, Subhadra Singh, 60, to the center of the Ganges River for a water burial as her husband Gopal Jee Singh, 65, stands on the shore at Jalasi ghat and watches. The body is weighed down with a rock and will be released into the water, as was Subhadra's wish, rather than being cremated.
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  • A young girl picks her way along the shoreline as a body burns at the Harishchandra cremation grounds. Just up river a man dries the clothes he just washed in the Ganges in the heat of a burning funeral pyre. The Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganges River.
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  • A rowboat passes, distorted by the heat waves rising from a body burning at the Harishchandra cremation grounds on the Ganges River in Varanasi, India. Just up river a man dries the clothes he just washed in the Ganges in the heat of a burning funeral pyre. The Harishchandra Ghat (also known as the Harish Chandra Ghat) is the smaller and more ancient of the two primary cremation grounds in Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganges River.
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  • The main mourner, usually the eldest son or closest male family member, prepares for cremation rituals by getting his head and face shaved. There are a prescribed set of rituals for the entire process that started at the family's home with the washing of the body and wrapping for the travel to the burning ghats. The main mourner's hair and facial hair is shorn, (cost 15 rupees, by one of the many barbers near the ghats) and his nails are cut.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio and Neha Diddee wait for an official at the Varanasi, India, police station to give them the official document permitting photography of cremation on the city's burning ghats on the Ganges River. Normally it is forbidden to photograph cremation ceremonies at The Mother Ganges, as the Hindis who consider its waters sacred call it. Varanasi, India.
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  • The main mourner, usually the eldest son or closest male family member, prepares for cremation rituals by getting his head and face shaved. There are a prescribed set of rituals for the entire process that started at the family's home with the washing of the body and wrapping for the travel to the burning ghats. The main mourner's hair and facial hair is shorn, (cost 15 rupees, by one of the many barbers near the ghats) and his nails are cut. Family members at home also are shaved and cut.
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  • In the narrow streets leading down to the Manikarnika Ghat, in Varanasi, India, many elderly people lounge about, whiling away their time.
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  • Firewood for cremation. A worker carries a piece of wood from one of the wood laden boats moored at the shore up to the stockpile area. The wood is chopped into smaller pieces and, when paid for by a family, is used to build funeral pyres at Jalasi Ghat (at Manikarnika Ghat) in Varanasi, India.
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  • A young girl in a rowboad sells floating votive candles to mourners and tourists near the Dashashwamedh Ghat, on the Ganges River in Varanasi, India. The most visited ghat of Varanasi by religious pilgrims, Dashashwamedh ghat is the most beautiful ghat in the city. The ghat is close to the famous 'Vishwanath Temple' and is therefore of high religious importance. The most enticing part is the evening 'Puja' performed by the group of priests. Also known as the 'Fire Puja', the ceremony is a dedication to River Ganges, Sun, Lord Shiva, Fire and the whole universe. The Ghats finds mention in the old religious texts, as it is said that lord Brahma created the ghats to welcome lord Shiva.
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  • Day of the Dead gravestone, at Todos Santos de  Cuchumatan, Guatemala.
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Peter Menzel photographing at Manikarnika Ghat on the Ganges River in Varanasi India. The Bodies arrive day and night from far and near to be cremated at Jalasi Ghat, the cremation grounds at Manikarnika Ghat. One hundred or more times a day male family members carry a loved one’s body through the narrow streets on a bamboo litter to the Ganges River shore—a place of pilgrimage for Hindus during life, and at death. Not every Hindu can be cremated here, because of transportation costs and logistical considerations. Sometimes a body is burned in one location and the ashes brought to Varanasi. There are other rivers in India, such as the Shipra which flows through the sacred city of Ujjain, that are considered sacred as well, but none holds the importance of the Ganges. Sometimes a small dummy representing the person will be burned at Jalasi.<br />
Only male family members are present and tend to the bodies at the cremation site as no show of emotion is allowed and also, they don’t want any of them jumping onto the fire, says one manager at the ghat. The body is carried to the water’s edge for a last dip, and then the main mourner prepares for his role in the ritual burning.<br />
The main mourner—usually the eldest son or closest male family member’s hair and facial hair is shorn, and his nails are cut. He wears a simple dhoti (traditional Indian male’s wraparound clothing). The chief mourner follows a prescribed ritual, which involves circling the body and showering it with ghee (clarified butter) and incense—like sandalwood—again often purchased from one of the local funereal accessories vendors. It takes about three hours for an average sized body to burn completely. If a family is poor and doesn’t have enough money to buy the right amount of wood to burn the body, then wood left over from other fires might be used. It takes about 350 kilos of wood to burn a body completely.<br />
Afterward, the workers dump ashes from the burned pyres and douse
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  • Day of the Dead festival honoring ancestors in a graveyard vigil in Mixquic, Mexico, outside Mexico City.
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  • Day of the Dead festival honoring ancestors in a graveyard vigil in Mixquic, Mexico, outside Mexico City.
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  • Krakow, Poland. Remuh Synagogue and Cemetery.
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  • Bone Chapel at Kudowa Zdroj, Poland.
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  • Bone Chapel at Kudowa Zdroj, Poland.
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  • Bone Chapel at Kudowa Zdroj, Poland.
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  • At the Bone Chapel complex at Kudowa Zdroj, Poland. (main church on All Saints Day with decorated graves with candles).
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  • Nuns on the run, Lodz, Poland cemetery on All Saints Day.
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  • Lodz, Poland cemetery in the rain on All Saints Day. Nun and woman carrying flowers blurred in motion, created by panning. Nun run.
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  • Lodz, Poland cemetery in the rain on All Saints Day.
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  • Zadzim Cemetery, Poland. All Saints Day.
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  • Wiezowski/Ledochowicz family. All Saints Day at cemetery in Lodz, Poland. Olga and her grandmother and her father, Borys.
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  • Wiezowski/Ledochowicz family. All Saints Day at cemetery in Lodz, Poland.
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  • Kazimierz, Poland cemetery on All Saints Day.
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  • Borys Wiezowski lighting candle, All Saints Day, Lodz, Poland.
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  • Kazimierz cemetery, Poland, on All Saints Day.
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  • Kazimierz, Poland cemetery on All Saints Day. Wiezowski/Ledochowicz family visits relatives' graves.
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  • Placing votive candles in a Lodz, Poland cemetery on All Saints Day.
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  • Preparing for All Saints Day. Powazek Cemetery. Warsaw, Poland.
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  • Preparing for All Saints Day. Powazek Cemetery. Warsaw, Poland. Aleksandra Goldanowska.
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  • Preparing for All Saints Day. Powazek Cemetery. Warsaw, Poland.
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  • Lodz, Poland. Muslim cemetery on All Saints Day. Carina Sahek puts flowers on relatives' graves.
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  • Warsaw, Poland. Powazek Cemetery on All Saints Day.
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