The bodies of murdered prisoners litter the courtyard of the Gensiowska (Gęsiówka) concentration camp on Gesia Street in Poland, which was liberated by the Soviet Army on May 10, 1945, during World War II. The Nazis carried out numerous executions in the prison courtyard. Groups of Jews, including displaced persons from Western European countries, were interned. The Nazis carried out numerous executions in the courtyards of the concentration camps.
On November 15, 1940, in the building of the former military prison at 24 Gęsia Street, the Nazis established a central prison for the Jewish ghetto. The concentration camp consisted of several buildings and a wall around the perimeter. Jews and people of Roma descent were also interned. Its cells, with a capacity of 300 inmates, held up to 1,300 prisoners. In addition, the Nazis carried out numerous executions in the prison yard; from the spring of 1944, prisoners from the nearby Pavia Street prison, the so-called Paviak, were also executed in large numbers. Their bodies were burned on the spot. The first mass executions in the Warsaw Ghetto took place on the grounds of the Gesiowska concentration camp
Gęsiówka, a colloquial name, was a former Polish Army military prison on Gęsia (Goose) Street in Warsaw, the capital of Poland. During the German occupation of Poland during World War II, it went from a German Security Police camp in 1939 to a Nazi concentration camp in 1943. During its period of operation, approximately 8,000 to 9,000 prisoners were interned and engaged in slave labor. Approximately 4,000 to 5,000 prisoners were murdered during death marches from the camp, during the Warsaw Uprising, and in hiding after the uprising.
After World War II, from 1945-56, Gensiwka was used as a prison and labor camp, first by the Soviet NKVD to imprison Polish resistance fighters and opponents of Poland's neo-Stalinist regime, and later by the Polish communist secret police The Soviet Union's NKVD was the first to use the prison system.
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