Burial rituals and funerary services in the Polish community in Lvov in the late 19th and the early 20th centuries

The article’s goal is to highlight burial rituals and funerary services in the Polish community in Lvov in the late 19th and the early 20th centuries as the issues are rarely discussed in academic research. Poles (who prevailed in the city) were typically Roman Catholics. The funerary ritual was modelled by the Catholic tradition. In the last decades of the 19th century, funeral parlours emerged in Lvov to render services to the city’s affluent and poor inhabitants alike.

Ruthenian influences in the Piast realm in the tenth and eleventh centuries in the context of interdisciplinary research on eastern Wielkopolska and Kujawy

This paper discusses the problem of Polish-Ruthenian contacts at an early stage of the Piast realm (from the rule of Mieszko I to the end of Mieszko II’s rule), focusing on the significance of written sources. It also looks at place names, possibly related to the Ruthenian population, and archaeological sources.

Cemeteries in Dawidów near Lvov. The Polish national heritage

Cemeteries are important sources of knowledge of the local and regional social history. Historical objects of sepulchral art (graves, tombs) located in cemeteries, with preserved inscriptions and epitaphs, represent also important source material for genealogical research. The article is an attempt at presenting past events and names of Poles who lived in Dawidów near Lvov, based on old and new gravestones and other source materials (lately recreated by the settlers’ descendants).

The cemetery in Navaria near Lvov: research into the Polish national heritage in the lost Eastern Territories

Cemeteries are important sources of information on local and regional social history. Historic sepulchral objects, typically located in cemeteries (crosses, headstones, tombs, grave chapels), with well-preserved inscriptions and epitaphs, are also important source material in genealogical research. Today, of special importance is documenting the survived objects of sepulchral art in cemeteries located in the Eastern Territories lost by Poland. This article is an attempt at presenting the events and names of Poles who lived in Navaria near Lvov, a town later transformed into a village, based on the old crosses and headstones which have survived in the local cemetery, together with other source materials. There are few objects commemorating Poles in the historical part of the cemetery in Navaria where Poles were buried until the mid-1940s. In the past several decades, a majority of the Polish graves were destroyed. The remaining ones are testimony of Poles’ presence in Navaria.