10.04.2010 Warsaw, Poland.
People mourning the tragic death of President Lech Kaczynski and his wife in front of the presidential residence.
11.04.2010 Warsaw, Poland.
People mourning the tragic death of President Lech Kaczynski and his wife in front of the presidential residence.
11 April 2010, Warsaw
Week of National Mourning, , Pilsudski Place, close to the Presidential Palace.
17.04.2010 Warsaw, Poland.
A solemn Holy Mass, celebrated by the Polish Episcopate Members to honor all victims of the catastrophe at Smolensk--at the Pilsudski Square and Saski Park. Father and son praying.
17.04.2010 Warsaw, Poland.
A solemn Holy Mass, celebrated by the Polish Episcopate Members to honor all victims of the catastrophe at Smolensk--at the Pilsudski Square and Saski Park.
17.04.2010 Warsaw, Poland.
People mourning the tragic death of President Lech Kaczynski and his wife in front of the presidential residence.
The President's coffin is leaving the Presidential Palace.
10.04.2010 Warsaw, Poland.
People mourning the tragic death of President Lech Kaczynski and his wife in front of the presidential residence.
10.04.2010 Warsaw, Poland.
People mourning the tragic death of President Lech Kaczynski and his wife in front of the presidential residence.
18th April 2010 Warsaw
The funeral of the President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria transmitted live from Cracow.
18th April 2010 Warsaw
The funeral of the President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria transmitted live from Cracow.
17 April 2010, Warsaw
Warsaw in mourning after the tragic death of President Lech Kaczynski and his wife.
15 April 2010, Warsaw
Week of National Mourning, Krakowskie Przedmiescie street close to the Presidential Palace.
18th April 2010 Warsaw
The funeral of the President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria transmitted live from Cracow.
On April 10, 2010, around 8:40 am, a plane TU 154 crashed close to the town of Smolensk in Russia. Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria were killed, along with Poland's chiefs of the army and the navy, central bank governor, MPs and leading historians, who were among 96 passengers and plane crew members. The Polish delegation was flying in from Warsaw to honor the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre (1940), where members of the Soviet secret police executed more than 20,ooo Polish officers captured after the Red Army invaded Poland in 1939 at the beginig of the WWII, many of whom were among Poland’s military and intellectual elite. For the second time in history, the Katyn Woods, in the Smolensk region of western Russia, witnessed the death of Polish elite. In the dark aftermath of the plane crash, for over a week of national mourning, Poles found comfort in gathering around the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, lighting tens of thousands of candles and laying flowers. They arrived from all over Poland to pay their last respects in front of the President's Lech Kaczynski and his wife's coffins displayed for the public at the palace. On Saturday April 17, hundreds of thousands of people attended an open-air memorial service in the centre of Warsaw and the state funeral of Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria held in Krakow the following day.
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