[travel] Paying to remember the dead

[mattbell]

Today I found out it costs nearly $20 to visit the memorial for Czech Jews who died in the Holocaust and the small adjoining Jewish Cemetery. This just seems... wrong. It's as if the US govt charged $100 to see the Vietnam War Memorial and Arlington Cemetery.

As far as I can tell, they do it beecause they can get away with it. They know busloads of Israeli tourists are going to show up every day, and there's no way they will come all this way and won't see the memorial, no matter how much it costs.

In any case, here are some very expensive pictures.  The reason the cemetery was so dense is because the land was limited, so they started stacking graves on top of existing ones and then moving up the headstones.