Geo Quiz

Poland’s national cemetery

By The World ⋅ November 2, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment
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For today’s Go Quiz we head to eastern Europe: Halloween’s come and gone in America but folks around the world are still observing some version of the holiday. In Mexico, there are Day of the Dead celebrations. Several other countries commemorate what they call All Soul’s Day today. In Northern India Christians visit family gravesites and pray.

In Poland, too, thousands of families remember the dead by visiting cemeteries. In honor of the day we’re looking for the name of Poland’s national cemetery in Warsaw. There you’ll find the graves of Polish soldiers who died in the 1944 uprising against Nazi Germany.

And this year a massive granite monument was unveiled. It pays tribute to the former Polish President and others who died in a plane crash in Russia earlier this year. So can you name this historic cemetery in the western part of Warsaw?

Geo Answer:

The answer is Warsaw’s Powazki cemetery. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Amy Drozdowska, a Polish-American journalist living in Warsaw, about a new monument that appeared in the cemetery this year.

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3 comments for “Poland’s national cemetery”

  • Joyce Peck

    I would have liked to have seen more photos of the beautiful candles described by the on-site journalist. It sounds amazing!

  • Anonymous

    I don’t know what it was, but the reporter in Poland’s (I presume it was Amy Drozdowska) rhythm and tempo and turn of phrase irked me to no end. I had to turn the radio off and wait until the report was over. Please let her know that she should speak in full phrases that shape sentences instead of bursts of words that sound like a shotgun blast across a screeching blackboard.

    Thank you, and sorry for my desired anonymity.

  • http://www.theworld.org/2010/11/02/poland-saints-souls/ Diane Birmingham

    I visited Poland twice with a friend and was always touched by the visit to the cemetery that was his tradition at each visit. This was a sentimental reminder of that friend and the integrity and loyalty of the polish people. Thank you.