Finishing off the last part of my visit to Szczecin – Stettin´s beautiful large forest cemetery, I must say the sad history of war and tragic accidents really touched me while writing these 6 blog posts about this graveyard!
I so loved these candlelights that I wanted to take some home.
I think this is a WWII monument, according to the names of the cities mentioned, but I only find Polish language information which I can absolutely not read.
Kozielsk, Ostaszkow, Starobielsk
Okay, googled it separately: The massacre of Katyn, in all these cities many people were executed by the NKVD (NKWD), 1940.
Okay, what happened here? So many lifes.
Would like to know the meaning of these two but didn´t picture any notes.
I like the one below, for all religions.
And it is a beautiful idea and monument.
Guess it is the monument for people killed in concentration camps. Therefore the railway track.
Says „Wirke so lange Tag ist. Es kommt die Nacht, da niemand wirken kann.“
This confuses me. It says gravestone of Papenbrock family, which is the lower, but speaks about the arch (with the sentence on top), while that arch includes stones with a very different last name (and similar to mine).
And then they tell you which animals do live in this paradise of nature. 🙂
Me walking into the shop at the cemetery to buy these candle lights.
First, I couldn´t decide. But also, they were plastic, so not that nice.
Third, I have no clue where to place them nicely, and it would need a few of them outside to look nice. And then I thought it might remind me of graveyards…
It is a beautiful place, but I don´t think I will come back. Too much tragedy.
Or I just did too much of research and all cemeteries carry stories like Stettin’s…