Photo: Poznan Cross Monument

Last night Ben (aka Piotrek) and I went out to try to get a few pictures. He continues to be extremely enthusiastic about photography, so you better believe I'm going to feed that as much as I can. I'm actually working on a Poznan photo book that we will show various shots that represent our life and ministry over the last few years and I wanted to get a different perspective on a very familiar monument in town.

The cross monument, as I refer to it, is yet another symbol of the plight of Polish people to secure their own freedom. Erected in 1981, the crosses stand paying homage to those who lost their lives fighting for Poland to regain its complete independence from beneath the corrupt and oppressive Soviet regime.

If you'd like to read more about the story surrounding the cross monument, here are two links that you will find extremely interesting.

• Poznan Uprising - 50th Anniversary Website
• Wikipedia's entry regarding Poznan's 1956 protests