Jewish Cemetery, Samarkand, Uzbekistan

The cemetery consists of various sections; the central one seems to be reserved for the well-off, while the outer sections are much simpler tombs. Here, you find row upon row of white tombstones, scarcely, if at all, decorated, sometimes with fences around them, stars on top, but sometimes with flowers. The cemetery is testimony to their presence, coming to life through the realistically and solemnly carved figures on the tombstones.

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