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29-JUL-2018 Jola Dziubinska

Sad And Tragic Place

Warsaw, Poland

Mokotow Prison in Warsaw, also known as Rakowiecka Prison.

During the Stalinist years it was one of the best known prisons used by the secret police as a place of detention, torture and execution of the Polish political opposition and underground fighters. The prisoners, kept in tiny concrete cells in inhumane conditions, were subject to interrogation and prolonged physical torture. Many were executed and burried there.
In 1998 a memorial plaque was erected on the prison wall to commemorate the 283 known political prisoners executed on Rakowiecka Street between 1945 and 1955, as well as hundreds of others whose names and place of burial remain unknown.

Since 2016 it is under reconstruction to serve as a museum of political prisoners, and to be opend in 2019.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Mokot%C3%B3w_Prison


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Walter Otto Koenig02-Aug-2018 15:27
What a sad history. Good that this will be a museum in the future to remember those who suffered and died.
Chris01-Aug-2018 19:44
So very hard to understand, if at all. Another terrible period in history.
It's good that the place will become a memorial.
cits_4_pets01-Aug-2018 16:45
Very sad and depressing. Man's inhumanity is something I cannot understand. v
barbarajoy01-Aug-2018 15:37
I agree Laine, Lynn and all! How utterly horrible. This needed to be shared Jola.
John Vass01-Aug-2018 15:24
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"
I also agree with Lynn! V
laine01-Aug-2018 10:32
As long as I live I will never understand how anyone could do such acts against their fellow man...
carol j. phipps01-Aug-2018 03:46
Thanks for sharing this, Jola. Agreeing with Lynn. V
LynnH01-Aug-2018 01:15
Terrible times. Excellent to remind our youth that freedom is not free. There is a great cost. V
jeanb31-Jul-2018 23:18
Sad indeed. Fine tribute.
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