Small mounds of soil. A thin marble tablet. A brief inscription, mostly without a name. A number. And the date of the burial. Unadorned silence.
The graveyard of the Unknown. The graveyard of refugees drown in the Aegean Sea. Their bodies washed ashore or picked up from the waters by the rescue teams.
A graveyard for the refugees in the village Kato Tritos on the island of Lesvos.
Unknown boy – Age 7 – No40 – 19/11/2015
Many of the graves belong to children.
Unknown Boy, age 12, No171 – Unknown Man, age 35, No221
Pictures taken by Velissarios Kossivakis and uploaded on his Facebook page.