City comes to standstill as Warsaw Rising commemorated

Yesterday was the 62nd anniversary of the Warsaw Rising. The celebrations lasted for the whole day, but the main ceremony with the participation of President Lech Kaczyński and thousands of Varsovians took place in the Military Cemetary in Powązki. At 5 pm "zero hour" the city came to a minute standstill as the sound of sirens filled the air and the public paid homage to those who fought in the rising. A little earlier a B-17 bomber flew over the city dropping leaflets which appealed to everyone to commemorate the anniversary with a minute of silence. The celebrations finished at midnight with a multimedia show at the Museum of the Warsaw Rising. (Gazeta Wyborcza, pp.1,4; Rzeczpospolita, p. A1) E.B.