Evergreen- Washelli Cemetery - Jewish Section part II

 

We decided to return to the cemetery for a more complete look about in the Jewish section and found the older part from yesterday's report to be closed, at least to vehicular traffic. Hence, we headed across the street to the newer section for a browse. This part is also quite interesting.

Here again we find the stones with small images affixed to tell us the story of lives in the past.

This one seems as if we are sitting the living room with this couple looking through their photo album.

To our surprise, we found post-WWII immigrant heros. He fought the Germans and she suffered under their iron fist.

Many gravestones are decorated with the star of David and the menorah.

This one also has that motif but in a more ornate fashion.

Michael Green is one of the few people I've encountered to have fought in both world wars and die in his old age. Imagine the tales he could tell!

Another stone that is carved in a way that is common in this section of the cemetery but is unknown elsewhere.

A quick read of this stone and a glance a the photo and you know how proud his family was of him, how their hearts broke when he died, and how, like so many others, he left us before his time.