Prayers for the dead all over Poland (pictures)

Radio Polonia ^ | 01.11.2005

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Prayers for the dead all over Poland

01.11.2005

Cemeteries in Poland are crowded with people flocking to pay respects to those who had gone.

All Saints Day is a day when candles are lit on all graves even the forgotten and neglected ones. Lights will shine not only on graves in Poland but all over the world where Poles are buried. In Germany representatives of the Polish consulate and the Polish community in Germany pay respects in several places commemorating the death of Poles. Only in Berlin flowers will be laid at eight cemeteries. Candles will be lit at the sites of former concentration camps in Sachsenhausen Ravensbrueck. Candles were lit in Moscow on the graves of the victims of Stalinist repressions. Representatives of the Polish embassy laid wreaths at the symbolic tombs of two leaders of the Polish Undergound state : general Leopold Okulicki and Stanislaw Jasiukiewicz. Both had been kidnapped to Moscow by the NKVD secret services and died in Stalinist prisons. Flowers are laid and prayers said at Polish tombs around the world, from Europe,the US to Africa where many Polish graves can be found at cemeteries of the allied forces which fought during WWII.

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[Thorin]

Thanks for the neat pictures.