Showing posts with label serbia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label serbia. Show all posts

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Death Notices



Thursday 20 May 2010

Our Serbian friends told us these little fliers are only seen in Serbia, although we have seen them in Bulgaria as well. A Balkan tradition, perhaps.

When someone dies, their family puts up these notices of their death on their door, near the church, and around town. They aren't taken down until maybe when they're faded and dirty. So poles and doors and bulletin boards here are full of little memorials, like an extension of the graveyard.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Red Cross Camp



Wednesday 19 May 2010

We popped over to the town of Nis (pron. "niche") in Serbia, for a few days.

Visited a WWII Nazi concentration camp while here. These were the solitary confinement cells, where prisoners were forced to sleep on floors covered with barbed wire.

I don't really know what else to say - it was upsetting as you would imagine a trip to a concentration camp would be.