Defunct Prisons in Poland - Bereza Kartuska Prison, Central Labour Camp Jaworzno, G Siowka, Norwegian POW Museum, Pawiak (Paperback)

Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Bereza Kartuska Prison, Central Labour Camp Jaworzno, G siowka, Norwegian Pow Museum, Pawiak, List of Soviet Union Prison Sites That Detained Poles, Stara Prochownia, Montelupich Prison. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Bereza Kartuska detention camp (or concentration camp; Polish:, "Place of Isolation at Bereza Kartuska") was a Polish place of detention, principally for political prisoners, that was operated in 193439 at Bereza Kartuska in the former Polesie Province (today in Belarus, near the city of Brest). Former building of the prison in 2010The institution was created on July 12, 1934, in a former Tsarist prison and barracks at Bereza Kartuska on the authority of a June 17, 1934, order issued by Polish President Ignacy Mocicki. It was intended to accommodate persons "whose activities or conduct give reason to believe that they threaten the public security, peace or order." The event that directly influenced Poland's de facto dictator, Jozef Pisudski, to create the prison was the assassination on June 15, 1934, by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), of Polish Minister of Internal Affairs Bronisaw Pieracki. Individuals were incarcerated at Bereza Kartuska by administrative decision, without right of appeal, for three months, although this term was often extended while Colonel Wacaw Kostek-Biernacki served as its commander. The camp was created for incarceration of suspected subversives and political opponents of the ruling Sanation regime. Additionally, detained there were financial criminals and persons suspected of such crimes (including a substantial proportion of Jews), common criminals (especially recidivists) and, in the prison's final phase, persons suspected of sabotage or espionage on behalf of Nazi Germany. Forme...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=7258833