BERLIN — A 34-year-old woman was buried in a Berlin cemetery on Tuesday, thousands of miles from her home in Syria and hundreds from the shores of Italy that eluded her while she was alive.

Pallbearers carried a white coffin covered with a red shroud and flowers and laid it before rows of empty chairs, each taped with a sheet of white paper bearing the name of a German politician.

The woman perished at sea on her way to the Italian coast in early March. Her name was withheld to protect her surviving husband and three children, who are in Germany and seeking asylum. The woman was among the thousands struggling to reach Europe’s southern and eastern borders.

With her family’s permission, her body was exhumed from a plot in Sicily and buried in Germany as part of a political demonstration called “The Dead are Coming,” which was organized by the Center for Political Beauty, a Berlin-based art group that focuses on protest. The reburial was the first of several planned by the group and one of a number of events being staged throughout Europe to generate attention and pressure leaders to deal with a growing humanitarian crisis.