Fundraisers benefit Poland's historic cemeteries
PR dla Zagranicy
Grzegorz Siwicki
13.11.2017 16:53
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Fundraisers benefit Poland's historic cemeteries
Every year on All Saints' Day, November 1, when Poles visit the graves of their nearest and dearest, collections are organised at historic cemeteries to help fund their renovation.
![Warsaw's Powązki cemetery. Photo: Adrian Grycuk [CC BY-SA 3.0 pl (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/pl/deed.en)], via Wikimedia Commons](http://external.polskieradio.pl/files/1f0d4c3e-143c-4a57-947b-27baf0f8c225.file "Warsaw's Powązki cemetery. Photo: Adrian Grycuk [CC BY-SA 3.0 pl (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/pl/deed.en)], via Wikimedia Commons")
Warsaw's Powązki cemetery. Photo: Adrian Grycuk [CC BY-SA 3.0 pl (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/pl/deed.en)], via Wikimedia Commons
Eliza Mickiewicz reports on the results of this year's drive.
“People give money to those whom they know, actors, doctors, lawyers but rather not politicians,” Małgorzata Jantos, coordinator of the campaign at the Rakowicki Cemetery in the southern city of Kraków, told Polish Radio.