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Bródno Cemetery
:''You may also be looking for the Bródno Jewish Cemetery.'' Bródno cemetery ( pl, Cmentarz Bródnowski) is an old cemetery in the Targówek district, in the eastern part of Warsaw, Poland. Occupying an area of , it is the largest cemetery in Warsaw. With more than 1.2 million burials, it is one of the largest cemeteries in Europe. History At the end of the 19th century Warsaw's population was growing rapidly, and the available cemeteries were unable to cope with the demand. As a result, President of Warsaw Sokrates Starynkiewicz ordered land to be bought at Bródno in 1883. On 20 November 1884 the cemetery was consecrated by Archbishop of Warsaw, Wincenty Teofil Popiel. The cemetery was opened also to the citizens of the left-bank Warsaw in January 1885. The cemetery has been completely opened on 14 June 1887. The Bródno Cemetery served as a burial place mostly for the poor strata of Warsaw society. This was in contrast with the Old Powązki Cemetery, which had a rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bródno Jewish Cemetery
Bródno Jewish Cemetery (also known as the Jewish Cemetery in Praga) is one of several Jewish cemeteries of Warsaw in Poland. The cemetery is located in the district of Targówek (near the better known district of Praga, and within Praga's unofficial neighborhood). The cemetery has been founded in 1780. It occupies an area of . Approximately 300,000 people are presumed to have been buried there, though only about 3,000 graves (tombstones) are preserved to this day. It is the largest Jewish cemetery in Warsaw. It is also said to be one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Europe. History The cemetery was opened in 1780 by Szmul Zbytkower, a Polish Jewish merchant and financier, who donated the land for that purpose (though he benefited from selling burial rights and other "arbitrary exactions" afterward). By mid-19th century the cemetery has grown to 18 ha. Since the 1870s the cemetery was administered by the local Jewish council, which refocused it on the burials of impoverished Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Józef Glemp
Józef Glemp (18 December 192923 January 2013) was a Polish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was Archbishop of Warsaw from 1981 to 2006, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1983. Biography Early life and ordination Józef Glemp was born in Inowrocław on 18 December 1929 as a son of Kazimierz Glemp and Salomea Kośmicka, and was baptized the same day. His father had participated in the Greater Poland Uprising from 1918 to 1919. Józef studied at the seminaries of Gniezno and Poznań, but his education was interrupted by the World War II; he and his siblings were slave laborers during the Nazi occupation of Poland. Glemp was ordained to the priesthood on 25 May 1956 by Bishop Franciszek Jedwabski. Glemp was of German descent on his father's side. On a visit to Scotland, he claimeScottish descenton his mother's side. Early service Between 1956 and 1959, Glemp was involved in the education of incurable youth and children in Mielżyn and Witkowo. He also taught religio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Cemeteries
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Cemeteries In Warsaw
A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a burial ground and originally applied to the Roman catacombs. The term ''graveyard'' is often used interchangeably with cemetery, but a graveyard primarily refers to a burial ground within a churchyard. The intact or cremated remains of people may be interred in a grave, commonly referred to as burial, or in a tomb, an "above-ground grave" (resembling a sarcophagus), a mausoleum, columbarium, niche, or other edifice. In Western cultures, funeral ceremonies are often observed in cemeteries. These ceremonies or rites of passage differ according to cultural practices and religious beliefs. Modern cemeteries often include crematoria, and some grounds previously used for both, continue as crematoria as a principal use long after the interment areas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katyń Massacre
The Katyn massacre, "Katyń crime"; russian: link=yes, Катынская резня ''Katynskaya reznya'', "Katyn massacre", or russian: link=no, Катынский расстрел, ''Katynsky rasstrel'', "Katyn execution" was a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia prisoners of war carried out by the Soviet Union, specifically the NKVD ("People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs", the Soviet secret police) in April and May 1940. Though the killings also occurred in the Kalinin and Kharkiv prisons and elsewhere, the massacre is named after the Katyn Forest, where some of the mass graves were first discovered by German forces. The massacre was initiated in NKVD chief Lavrentiy Beria's proposal to Joseph Stalin to execute all captive members of the Polish officer corps, which was secretly approved by the Soviet Politburo led by Stalin. Of the total killed, about 8,000 were officers imprisoned during the 1939 Soviet invasion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Saints' Day
All Saints' Day, also known as All Hallows' Day, the Feast of All Saints, the Feast of All Hallows, the Solemnity of All Saints, and Hallowmas, is a Christian solemnity celebrated in honour of all the saints of the church, whether they are known or unknown. From the 4th century, feasts commemorating all Christian martyrs were held in various places, on various dates near Easter and Pentecost. In the 9th century, some churches in the British Isles began holding the commemoration of all saints on 1 November, and in the 9th century this was extended to the whole Catholic church by Pope Gregory IV. In Western Christianity, it is still celebrated on 1 November by the Roman Catholic Church as well as many Protestant churches, as the Lutheran, Anglican, and Methodist traditions. The Eastern Orthodox Church and associated Eastern Catholic and Eastern Lutheran churches celebrate it on the first Sunday after Pentecost. The Syro-Malabar Church and the Chaldean Catholic Church, both of who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paweł Wypych
Paweł Wypych (20 February 1968 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish politician, former Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Insurance president, and from 2009 the Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the President of Poland. Wypych was born in Otwock. He was listed on the flight manifest of the of the 36th Special Aviation Regiment
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Seweryna Szmaglewska
Seweryna Szmaglewska (Seweryna Maria Szmaglewska-Wiśniewska) (February 11, 1916 – July 7, 1992) was a Polish writer, known for both books for children and adults alike, and an inmate of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during World War II. Her novels ' (''Black Feet'') and ' (''Smoke over Birkenau'') are compulsory reading in Polish schools. Biography She was born on February 11, 1916, in Przygłów near Piotrków Trybunalski, then in Central Powers-occupied part of the Kingdom of Poland. She graduated from the Free Polish University and went on to study at the Polish language and literature faculties of the Jagiellonian University of Cracow and the Łódź University. Between 1942 and 1945 she was an inmate of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp after spending two months in the prisons of Piotrków and Częstochowa. In 1945 she successfully escaped the Nazis during a "death march".Jacek Lachendro, ''Ucieczki więźniów KL Auschwitz w czasie marszu śmi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanisław Kędziora
Stanisław Kędziora (6 December 1934, Seligów – 25 December 2017, Warsaw) was a Polish Roman Catholic bishop and doctor of theology. He served as auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Warsaw, Archdiocese of Warsaw from 1987 to 1992 and as auxiliary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Warszawa-Praga, Diocese of Warszawa-Praga from 1992 to 2011. Biography Kędziora was born on 6 December 1934 in Seligów. From 1948 to 1952, he attended the secondary school in Łowicz. After finishing secondary school, he was an employee at the commune's office. From 1953 to 1958, he studied philosophy and theology at the Higher Metropolitan Seminary in Warsaw. He was Holy orders, ordained as a subdeacon on 29 June 1957 by the auxiliary bishop of Warsaw at the time, . Subsequently, he was ordained as a deacon on 11 August 1957 by Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński. Kędziora was ordained to be a presbyter on 3 August 1958 at St. John's Archcathedral, Warsaw, again by Wyszyński. From 1961 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoni Kolczyński
Antoni ‘’Kolka’’ Kolczyński (25 August 1917 – 19 June 1964) was a Polish boxer, champion of Europe and participant in the Olympic Games. In 1937 he won silver in the Championships of Poland, and next year, he was chosen the best fighter of the Europe - United States boxing match. Also, in 1938 he was voted second most popular athlete of Poland, in the Przeglad Sportowy plebiscite. During the 1939 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Dublin, Kolczynski achieved his biggest success, winning gold. In the final fight of the welterweight, he beat Erik Ågren from Sweden. During World War II, Kolczynski was unable to continue career. After 1945, he never got back to the late-1930s form. He participated in the 1948 Olympic Games in London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Zientara
Edmund Jan Zientara (25 January 1929 – 3 August 2010) was a Polish footballer who played as a midfielder. Career Born in Warsaw, Zientara played for Polonia Warsaw, Kolejarz Warszawa, CWKS Warszawa, OWKS Lublin, Gwardia Warsaw, Legia Warsaw and Maribyrnong Polonia. He earned 36 caps for the Poland national team between 1950 and 1961. He also represented Poland at the 1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad ( it, Giochi della XVII Olimpiade) and commonly known as Rome 1960 ( it, Roma 1960), were an international multi-sport event held ..., making three appearances in the tournament. References 1929 births 2010 deaths Footballers from Warsaw Polish footballers Polonia Warsaw players Legia Warsaw players KS Lublinianka players Gwardia Warsaw players Western Eagles FC players Pezoporikos Larnaca FC managers Association football midfielders Polish expatriat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mieczysław Fogg
Mieczysław Fogg (born Mieczysław Fogiel; 30 May 1901, Warsaw3 September 1990, Warsaw) was a Polish singer and artist. His popularity started well before World War II and continued well into the 1980s. He had a characteristic way of staying very serious yet slightly emotional on stage when singing. Fogg had a lyric baritone voice and can be compared to French Tino Rossi in style. Biography Mieczysław Fogiel was born 30 May 1901 in Warsaw, then a province guberniya capital in Russian Empire. He spent his childhood there and, after graduating from a local gymnasium in 1922, he started working as a railway worker. About that time, he also joined the choir of the St. Anne's Church. There his friend, Ludwik Sempoliński, made him join the classes of music organized by Jan Łysakowski, Eugeniusz Mossakowski, Wacław Brzeziński, Ignacy Dygas and many other notable Polish musicians of the epoch. Initially a hobbyist, in 1928 he met Władysław Daniłowski ''Dan'', who chose him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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