Next weekend will be All Saints' Day when all the Poles descend on their local cememtries and leave candles and flowers. It's a really moving occassion, especially walking through the graves and night (with all the twinkling candles).
Talking of which...the grave lights are very popular here...as you can see with the above advertisement. A few years ago, an English friend of mine came to Toruń and but about 20 of these lights thinking they were BBQ lights. He then went back to the UK and invited some Polish friends of his around for the evening. You can imagine the shock and surprise when they entered his garden!! They must have wondered who had just died!!! Hee hee!!!
This striking statue of a fallen figure now stands in the Barbarka forest, close to the cemetry of Poles shot by the Nazis. Over a period of several months in 1939 the Nazis shot over 600 citizens from Toruń and the surrounding area. Their bodies were buried in mass graves deep within the forest.
