Language:
Polish
Year of publication:
2010
Titel der Quelle:
Kwartalnik Historii Żydów
Angaben zur Quelle:
236 (2010) 411-423
Keywords:
Pawiak (Prison)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews
Abstract:
Pawiak served as the central prison of the German occupying power in Warsaw. During 1939-44, ca. 100,000 inmates passed through the Pawiak prison, many of them Jews. The first prisoners were arrested even before the ghetto was established, for ordinary offenses (e.g. not wearing the arm band with the Star of David on it). The next group consisted of hostages taken by the Germans, and intellectuals of Jewish origin who were arrested as part of the Polish intelligentsia. After them came Jews holding U.S. and Latin American passports, who were arrested between April-July 1942, and a year later (July 1943) the Jews from the Hotel Polski. Of the latter group, more than 300 out of the 400 arrested were executed in the vicinity of the prison. The largest group of inmates were Jews who were caught living on the "Aryan side" (e.g. Emanuel Ringelblum, who was executed in March 1944).
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