Memory Remains. Stare Powązki behind the IV Gate.

About the event

We invite you to visit the Stare Powązki Cemetery, in the section behind the IV Gate. We will visit, among others, the resting places of: - Bolesław Prus - Hanka Bielicka - Bronisław Pawlik - Joanna Chmielewska - Irena Kwiatkowska - Grzegorz Przemyk - Henryk Marconi - Edward Rydz Śmigły - Marek Hłasko - Jan Rodowicz "Anoda" - Edward Dziewoński - Janusz Strzałecki - Stefan Ossowiecki - and many others ------------- Details about this event can be found on the Evenea ticketing platform: 🎟️ https://app.evenea.pl/event/powazki26102025/ We publish the dates of all events on our company website: https://www.zwiedzajznami.com.pl You can also sign up for our mailing list and receive, once or twice a month, information about upcoming events: https://www.zwiedzajznami.com.pl/newsletter ------------- We will also look for answers to questions such as: - What did the painter who never smiled do? - What was the use of a joint photo with Adolf Hitler? - What does the grave of a traitor look like? - Why did President Stefan Starzyński write a will? - Which family is a nightmare for beginner Warsaw guides? - Whose grave is adorned by a mourner with a bare bust? - Which grave field is the largest in Stare Powązki, and which tombstone is the tallest in Warsaw cemeteries? - The violinist has a violin on his tombstone, the actor a theatrical mask, gardeners a watering can, but what does the gynecologist have on his tombstone? - Who were the parents of Stanisław Eugeniusz Hiszpański and why did this honorable family get their own street in Mokotów? - Who has a tombstone commemorating a disaster? - Where is one of Warsaw's Niobes, the mother of the heroes of the "Zośka" battalion, buried? - Who was eliminated during one of the most famous, but today somewhat forgotten, actions carried out by Home Army soldiers? - Whose death is one of the greatest criminal mysteries of the PRL era? - Whom did Marshal Józef Piłsudski try to expose, and was the exposure successful? - What characterizes verism in sculptural art? - Which tombstone is listed among the world's most beautiful tombstones in the top hundred, and why was its author accused of nepotism and cronyism? - Can a tombstone still evoke strong emotions today? - What does cemetery modernism look like? - and many more. WE WARMLY INVITE YOU The organizer is the Arktour Guide Office, entry number in the Register of Organizers and Tourist Intermediaries of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship: 1923. The dates of our organized events can be found at: https://www.zwiedzajznami.com.pl You can also sign up for our mailing list and receive, once or twice a month, information about upcoming events: https://www.zwiedzajznami.com.pl/newsletter Warsaw blog: https://www.whu.org.pl Facebook profile: https://www.facebook.com/ArktourWHU Phone: 514-784-177 or 508 101 105 E-mail: [email protected]