Pawiak prison

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Pawiak prison was a notorious Nazi Gestapo prison in German-occupied Warsaw, used primarily for the incarceration, torture, and execution of Polish political prisoners and resistance members during World War II.

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Pawiak prison canonical 3
Gestapo Pawiak prison 1
Pawiak Prison Museum 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Gestapo prison
Nazi prison
World War II site
prison
associatedWithEvent German reprisals against Polish civilians
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
category Gestapo prisons
History of Warsaw
Nazi war crimes in Poland
World War II crimes against Poles
commemorates victims of Nazi terror in Warsaw
controlledBy Reich Main Security Office
surface form: German security police

Gestapo in Warsaw
country Poland
demolishedBy Wehrmacht
surface form: German forces
demolishedIn 1944
estimatedPrisonersHeld tens of thousands
estimatedPrisonersKilled many thousands
hasMemorial Pawiak prison self-linksurface differs
surface form: Pawiak Prison Museum
heritageStatus site of national remembrance in Poland
languageOfName Polish
locatedIn German-occupied Warsaw
Warsaw
Warsaw Ghetto
surface form: Warsaw Ghetto area
locatedInTime German occupation of Poland
memorialLocatedIn Warsaw
memorialType museum
namedAfter Pawia Street (historical name origin of area)
notableFor brutal interrogation methods
mass arrests
mass executions
operatedBy Gestapo
Nazi Germany
partOf Nazi repressive apparatus in occupied Poland
primaryVictims Jewish prisoners
Polish political prisoners
members of the Polish resistance
significance symbol of Nazi terror in occupied Warsaw
streetAddress Dzielna Street NERFINISHED
timePeriod 1939–1944
usedAgainstGroup Home Army
surface form: Home Army members

Polish intelligentsia
underground press activists
usedDuring World War II
usedFor execution
incarceration of Polish political prisoners
incarceration of resistance members
torture

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German AB-Aktion in Poland location Pawiak prison
Pawiak prison hasMemorial Pawiak prison self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Pawiak Prison Museum
Zofia Kossak-Szczucka wasImprisonedIn Pawiak prison
Władysław Bartoszewski detainedAt Pawiak prison
this entity surface form: Gestapo Pawiak prison
Maximilian Kolbe imprisonedAt Pawiak prison