Lent and Easter traditions in Poland include several celebrations: - Fat Thursday and Shrove Tuesday mark the end of carnival before Lent, when Poles eat doughnuts and herrings. - Palm Sunday commemorates Jesus' entry to Jerusalem, with palms blessed in church believed to have special properties. - Holy Week includes services on Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday, as well as processions recalling Christ's passion. - On Holy Saturday, people bring baskets of symbolic foods like bread, eggs and horseradish to church for blessing before Easter meals. - Easter traditions involve Easter breakfast after mass, children receiving gifts from the Easter Bunny, and Wet Monday when boys sprinkle girls with water