Souls
Brodno all the sidewalks within a kilometer from the cemetery pledged stalls. Vans with chrysanthemums, tables with candles scouts. Occasional hawkers stalls, benefiting from the downturn. And professionals, those closer to the gates, collecting a large harvest, instead of tediously capture rain water from still, throughout the year, mżącego kapuśniaczku haunting graves.
North gate at the European Headquarters is open all year, every weekend. This is the result of vigorous lobby pressure from owners of new graves at this gate. Just a few years ago, when the end of the cemetery was a reserve, neglected wasteland, the gate was open only in the great feasts. Christmas, Easter, All Saints.
But after the land use of the reserve by the rich, granite and marble tombs, the gate began to be opened every Saturday. Every Sunday.
So far approached the family grave Szewc. A few minutes from the gate.
Shoemaker during childhood with his grandmother walked from the main gate. Half an hour. Whether you're from St. Vincent, and the European Headquarters. For Single Św.Wincentego reached, the European Headquarters Two.
Bródno, it was actually only the cemetery and poor-houses. Few-grandmother said her grandson: Which tram earlier podjedzie, including going. The road to the headquarters of the same. I brzdącowi seemed to go on an endless journey. Eight years of feet hurt!
largest cemetery in Europe. Almost three times larger than the Vatican State. It was necessary to reach half of the main avenue. And then on the side, on the odd side.
Source: Cemetery Bródnowski
Grandma was there, her husband, who died in a best time, shortly after Pilsudski, in the 36-th, nomem omen 22-July. When 18-year-old New Poland has flourished and the clouds just collect. Left his wife with five children, fortunately already odchowanymi. Wife is set in a prosperous store and garden działkowym at Zanna. All children were able to develop. Intelligence in the first generation. Four girls, like raspberries and a boy, as a spark.
Oh, was not easy. Nałęczów came from a peasant in the time to declare, somewhat zapyziałe Warsaw - the capital Prywiślińskiego country. He was highly skilled charioteer and the persistent efforts of the coachman caught up in the Horse trams. Agile met a girl coming from a village near Siedlce, ministering in the State. They were married at the threshold of a new, promising high hopes of the twentieth century.
age of steam and electricity, yet managed to convert the horse trams, electric trams in Warsaw and the coachman in a driverless, even then the father of two children. It already was somebody. You could support the family. Children were born in this wonderful, innocent, hopeful fin de siecle. Last, the youngest, mom Szewc, just before the Great War.
Years fat and happy, lasting longer than seven years.
Then there were the lean years. War, famine. Streetcar or thinly spun. Withdrawal times were not there. Mark Polish and glided down the bottom was not visible. Well, sometimes on payment of starczała match.
agile mother of five children, whose suffragette failed mutiny,
gave the rebel poor. Szewc's mother, Helen, told me that the house was fine, when the bread was just butter. But butter sandwiches are secreted sparingly. Almost all the sisters ate right away. And one, the eldest, Margaret, was the most thrifty, hid in the closet for later. Well, Joan, and younger, the most clever, wypatrzywszy, sneaked. And what a scene later!
But such a fuss about a piece of bread, it has been a poor mother too much. She decided to spin for something that the kids were put into their mouths much more than a few slices of cake. So shop opened. From the beginning of caution on the ground floor of his home at Wolf.
sold through the window, at random. But I know that the best job it worse, as the worst trade. Well, peasant from Siedlce entered the market. Like what Wokulska for the poor.
Then war is over, than this, than from that, this is Poland in the first, the Bolsheviks pogonili, Grabski golden introduced and finally the crisis was over.
shop shop has blossomed into a solid, profitable as it looks.
survived until to end the war. Even during the uprising against szabrownikami masked uncle, decoration rozszabrowanego umyślając shop smartly. It was not until the Battle of the Minister of Commerce Mr. Minc not endure.
overgrown kids to school could send. And all the girls finished high school diploma. Pre-war!
A guy got up to the remaining parts as a pilot and the September campaign and the Battle of Britain took place. Reef survived the war and served back in the fifties. Englishwoman's wife for himself. Unfortunately, soon died, perhaps from grief. And now lies in the distant England, the English cemetery in the English headquarters. He died before the thaw. At the funeral there was no way even to write letters, you can not really be.
that only his family grave in the Brodno missing. (...)
Now the descendants of the clan in this family tomb of sandstone come.
(...) A
in All Saints 'Day or All Souls' Day, the entire clan, children of all the aunts and their children to meet.
Because, then this is our Polish tradition.
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