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Gęsiówka prison
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thumb|300px|right|View from a tower of St. Augustine Church on Nowolipki 18 Street towards Warsaw Ghetto. In front ruins on Pawia Street behind them surrounded by high wall with watch towers, is the west side of the Gesiowka prison. The Jewish cemetery on Okopowa Street is visible in the background on the left behind Gesiowka prison. Spring 1945
Key facts
- Prison.name
- Gęsiówka
- Prison.image
- Jewish prisones of KZGesiowka liberated by Polish Soldiers of Home Army Warsaw1944.jpg
- Prison.caption
- Liberated Jewish women with Polish resistance fighters of the Zośka Battalion, 5 August 1944
- Prison.opened
- 1875
- Prison.closed
- 1956
- Prison.city
- Warsaw
- Prison.county
- Mazovia
- Prison.country
- Poland
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- Warsaw Uprising photos from Gęsiówka
- native label
- Gęsiówka
- different from
- Warsaw concentration camp
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- History
- Liberation during Warsaw Uprising
- After World War II
- Gęsiówka liberation memorial
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|300px|right|View from a tower of St. Augustine Church on Nowolipki 18 Street towards Warsaw Ghetto. In front ruins on Pawia Street behind them surrounded by high wall with watch towers, is the west side of the Gesiowka prison. The Jewish cemetery on Okopowa Street is visible in the background on the left behind Gesiowka prison. Spring 1945
Gęsiówka () is the colloquial Polish name for a prison that once existed on Gęsia ("Goose") Street in Warsaw, Poland, and which, under German occupation during World War II, became a Nazi concentration camp.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gęsiówka prison” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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