Political prisoners in Poland and Polish territories (under the administration of other states) have existed throughout much of the 19th and 20th centuries...

in Poland Political prisoners in Russia Political prisoners in Saudi Arabia Political prisoners in Syria Political prisoners in Venezuela Political prisoners...

The NKVD prisoner massacres were a series of mass executions of political prisoners carried out by the NKVD, the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs...

Underground in Poland 1944–1956, listing scores of armed attacks on communist prisons after World War II, in which hundreds of political prisoners were freed...

thirteen of the prisoners held by Russia and Belarus were released to Germany and three to the U.S. Both the U.S. and Russia hailed the prisoner swap as a significant...

Camps for Russian prisoners and internees in Poland that existed during 1919–1924 housed two main categories of detainees: the personnel of the Imperial...

more than 1,500 prisoners in Upper Silesia, most of whom were either native speakers of Silesian German or Polish political prisoners. In 1996, he was indicted...

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains...

As a result of the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, hundreds of thousands of Polish soldiers became prisoners of war. Many of them were executed; 22...

earliest recorded usage of the phrase "prisoner of war" dates back to 1610. Belligerents hold prisoners of war in custody for a range of legitimate and...

Homeland Union and various minor parties) and the Lithuanian Union of Political Prisoners and Deportees respectively. At the same time, the party attracted...

largest camps in the Gulag system. The camp housed 73,000 prisoners at its peak in 1951, containing Soviet and foreign prisoners including prisoners of war,...

Holidays in Poland are regulated by the Non-working Days Act of 18 January 1951 (Ustawa z dnia 18 stycznia 1951 o dniach wolnych od pracy; Journal of...

and execution of the Polish political opposition and underground fighters. The prison continues to function, holding prisoners awaiting trial or sentencing...

difference between camp categories in Poland except for the level of punitive actions. Some camps were built so that the prisoners could be worked to death out...

Geneva Convention with prisoners of war of other nationalities, military planners decided to breach it with the Soviet prisoners. By the end of 1941, over...

of political elite in Congress Poland. The exiles included artists, soldiers and officers of the uprising, members of the Sejm of Congress Poland of 1830–1831...

male political prisoners, including Catholic priests and Jews—arrived on 14 June 1940 from Tarnów, Poland. They were given serial numbers 31 to 758. In a...

social outsiders, the influx of new prisoners meant that political prisoners became a minority. To house the new prisoners, three new camps were established:...

[better source needed] The vulnerability of LGBTQ prisoners has led some prisons to separate them from other prisoners, while in others they are housed with the general...

the world to carry out actions for amnesty for political prisoners in Poland. In 1928, there was a split in the KPP and the Union of Communist Youth, and...

Poland nor Soviet Union actually declared war on one another, which made the status of Polish prisoners of war in Soviet custody somewhat unclear in terms...

ordered partly to retain the prisoners as forced labor and partly to avoid allowing any prisoners to fall into enemy hands. In October and November 1944...

prisoners by the SS. After the fall of communism in Poland, the monument was joined by a small commemorative plinth to the inmates of the political prison...

the total number of prisoners in prison camps was more than 2.4 million of which more than 465,000 were political prisoners. In 1948, the system of "special...

the far-right Alternative for Germany party in Saxony, is revealed to be using Belarusian political prisoners as labour by independent Belarusian news outlet...

number of German and Polish prisoners were allowed to write and send correspondences. Selected prisoners were required to write in German, the official language...

Jews in Poland dates back at least 1,000 years. For centuries, Poland was home to the largest and most significant Ashkenazi Jewish community in the world...

about 3500. After 1956 (events of Polish October) executions of political prisoners ended, and most executions were related to the crime of murder. The...

official political pretext for the Slovak participation in the Polish Campaign was a small disputed area on the Poland–Slovakia border. Poland had appropriated...