• During the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the Pawiak Prison became a German assault base. Pawiak jailers, commanded by Franz Bürkl, volunteered to hunt the Jews.
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  • Pawiak was a prison that no longer exists in Warsaw, which was built by the Russians in the years 1829–35.
  • Pawiak is the name of a prison located in Warsaw. Pawiak prison was founded in 1835. The prison was closed in 1965, after which there is a museum.
  • Historia więzienia Pawiak w Warszawie (1939 - 1944). ... Lekcja Pawiak byłe więzienie hitlerowskie. Muzeum Niepodległości w Warszawie.
  • A decision to erect a new prison in Warsaw was taken in 1829. This prison, later called "Pawiak", was located between Dzielna, Pawia, and Wiezienna Streets.
  • Built in the 1830s to serve as a Tsarist prison, Pawiak came to the fore during WWII when it slipped into the hands of the Gestapo.
  • Pawiak was designed to accommodate 1,000 inmates, housed three times that amount, the conditions in the prison was extremely harsh. One prisoner recalls
  • Take a look at the statue of the Pawiak tree – a bronze copy of the famous elm, on which the families of victims placed epitaphs.