Pawiak

Warsaw, Poland · built 1835

Pawiak (Polish pronunciation: [ˈpavjak]) was a prison built in 1835 in Warsaw, Congress Poland. During the January 1863 Uprising, it served as a transfer camp for Poles sentenced by Imperial Russia to deportation to Siberia. During the World War II-era German occupation of Poland, it was used by the Germans, and in 1944 it was destroyed in the Warsaw Uprising.

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