Identity after death

Abstract

I dedicated my doctoral thesis to the problem of urban necropolises. Focusing on the cemeteries of Katowice I tried to describe their contemporary roles and significance. If one is to give some thought as to why among many other problems I chose this particular one, the answer does not seem complicated at all. Since my childhood years cemeteries, mainly those situated in the city centre, were a place of my daily walks. Involved with them are numerous memories, however this is neither the time, nor the place to write about them. Nevertheless, I would like to bring back one thread – the issue that caught my attention already in my childhood. Among the more or less cared for tombstones, although in fact they were extremely similar to one another, one could find old, usually very lavish tombs on which barely visible were the blurred remains of ancient inscriptions (...).