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Gęsiówka prison

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Also known as Gęsiówka

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

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Vinony's link graph records 35 inbound references to Gęsiówka prison, and connects out to Nazi concentration camp, Battalion Zośka and Wacław Micuta.

The entry is geolocated on the map in PL, across 3 mapped points.

It is catalogued under topics including Buildings and structures in Warsaw, Defunct prisons in Poland and Holocaust locations in Poland.

Vinony links it to 12 Wikipedia language editions.

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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Wikidata facts

Instance of
prison
Country
Poland
Located in
Warsaw
Image
Gęsiowka Prison in Warsaw (1944).jpg
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Commons category
Warsaw Uprising photos from Gęsiówka
native label
Gęsiówka
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Encyclopedic overview

8 sections
Contents
  • 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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