IN POLAND, graves are decorated with flowers and the cemeteries are illuminated with candles at night on All Saints Day and All Souls Day, Nov. 1 and 2:

Her family would begin preparing a week ahead of time by cleaning up the graves of their deceased relatives. The whole village would be at the cemeteries preparing the graves of all the deceased, including the graves of those who had no living relatives in the area. Later, I read that the Poles took this obligation of cleaning the graves so seriously that after World War II many would travel to Monte Casino, Italy, to pay this honor to the graves of the Polish soldiers who died there.

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