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    Pawiak (Polish pronunciation: [ˈpavjak]) was a prison built in 1835 in Warsaw, Congress Poland. During the January 1863 Uprising, it served as a transfer...
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    Muzeum Więzienia "Pawiak" (Museum of Pawiak Prison) is a museum in Warsaw, Poland, established in 1965. It shows the history of Pawiak Prison which was...
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    and July 1941 more than 1700 Poles and Jews – mostly inmates of Warsaw's Pawiak prison – were executed by the SS (Schutzstaffel) and Ordnungspolizei in...
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  • shot several thousand people there – Polish hostages (mainly prisoners of Pawiak prison and ordinary residents of the city detained during mass round-ups)...
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    cross the Romanian border, brought back to Warsaw where he was placed in Pawiak prison, and killed in August 1943. Bernard Goldstein List of Poles David...
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    supervision of Dr. Ludwig Hahn, whose seat was located in Szuch Avenue; Pawiak staff members; KL Warschau staff members; SS-men from the Third Battalion...
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    Organization. Many places commemorate the heroic history of Warsaw such as Pawiak, a German Gestapo prison now occupied by a Mausoleum of Memory of Martyrdom...
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  • has in its possession a dozen or so depositions made by former inmates of Pawiak, including those of its female ward, the so-called Serbia. These testimonies...
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    responsibility was frequently applied. Warsaw's prisons and detention centers – Pawiak, the detention center on Daniłowiczowska Street, Mokotów Prison, and the...
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    19th century prison cell in Pawiak, Warsaw...
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    The interned were held in a number of prisons, including the infamous Pawiak where they were subject to brutal interrogations by Nazi officials. After...
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    Kolbe and four others were arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned in the Pawiak prison. On 28 May, he was transferred to Auschwitz as prisoner 16670. Continuing...
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    ISBN 83-06-01851-6. Domańska, Regina (1978). Pawiak – więzienie Gestapo. Kronika lat 1939–1944 [Pawiak - the prison of Gestapo. Chronography of 1939-1944]...
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    4 March 1906. They held her prisoner first at the ratusz jail, then at Pawiak prison and later at the Tenth Pavilion of the Warsaw Citadel. Luxemburg...
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    among them writer Ferdynand Goetel, the Polish Home Army prisoner from Pawiak. After the war, Goetel escaped with a fake passport due to an arrest warrant...
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    report written by Jürgen Stroop for Heinrich Himmler) Polish inmates of Pawiak prison hanged by Germans in Leszno Street, Warsaw, February 11, 1944 (photo...
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  • film follows Max Fronenberg during his forced labor and imprisonment in Pawiak Prison Camp in Warsaw, Poland, during World War II. While imprisoned Max...
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    Bürkl—Franz Bürkl, SS-Oberscharführer, Gestapo officer, and commandant of the Pawiak prison, assassinated 7 September 1943. Operation Kutschera—Franz Kutschera...
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    pregnant. A month later she was arrested; she gave birth to their son Janek in Pawiak prison. In 1911, Zofia was sentenced to permanent Siberian exile, and she...
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    Warsaw Old Town Krasiński Palace POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews Pawiak Hale Mirowskie Nożyk Synagogue Presidential Palace Zachęta National Gallery...
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    Battle of Warsaw May Coup Siege of Warsaw Bombing of Warsaw in World War II Pawiak prison Warsaw concentration camp Warsaw Ghetto Umschlagplatz Warsaw Ghetto...
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    Battle of Warsaw May Coup Siege of Warsaw Bombing of Warsaw in World War II Pawiak prison Warsaw concentration camp Warsaw Ghetto Umschlagplatz Warsaw Ghetto...
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    Practiced as a doctor within the ghetto. Thought to have been executed at Pawiak prison, September 1942. Yitzhak Suknik – fighter in the Jewish Fighting...
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    museums at the sites of the former Nazi German Treblinka extermination camp, Pawiak Prison in Warsaw and Dulag 121 camp in Pruszków. Football, handball, volleyball...
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  • resulted in no losses for the resistance, the Nazis killed 20 inmates of Pawiak prison in a public execution in reprisal. Strzembosz (1983), page 343-346...
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    most of the SD guards were killed or captured, though some fled toward the Pawiak prison. Only two Polish fighters were killed in the attack. Rescued from...
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    Battle of Warsaw May Coup Siege of Warsaw Bombing of Warsaw in World War II Pawiak prison Warsaw concentration camp Warsaw Ghetto Umschlagplatz Warsaw Ghetto...
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    prison for women, located in Warsaw at 26 Dzielnej Street adjacent to the Pawiak prison. It was built by the Russian occupiers of Poland. The building was...
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    Battle of Warsaw May Coup Siege of Warsaw Bombing of Warsaw in World War II Pawiak prison Warsaw concentration camp Warsaw Ghetto Umschlagplatz Warsaw Ghetto...
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    at the age of 17, during the rescue of prisoners in Pawiak code-named Action "Pawiak" ("Akcja Pawiak"). On July 19–20, 1944, a Ukrainian Wachmeister (guard)...
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