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	Grange ghetto home page
		The Pawiak (named after Pawia Street) was built as a prison by the Russians between 1830 and 1835.
		The area around the Pawiak was a particularly dangerous one for passing Jews, as the guards would arrest people at random.
		After the annihilation of the ghetto in 1943 the Germans used the ghetto ruins surrounding the Pawiak as a convenient execution ground.
	warsawghetto.epixtech.co.uk /Pawiak.htm (260 words)

	Voices from Ravensbrück - Manuscript Section, University Library in Lund (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Pawiak was emptied by these transports, so that there would be more space as soon as possible for the newly arrested people, for the new Polish victims.
		Pawiak evidence of the crimes committed against the Poles by the Germans during the entire period of the war, horrific crimes, the likes of which have never been seen before in history.
		Pawiak is at the same time evidence of the strong attitude, the impressive attitude of the Poles who, even under the greatest torture, would never sell out to the Germans or renounce the idea of Freedom, or renounce the struggle for human freedom, and for the freedom of our beloved Poland.
	www.lub.lu.se /handskrift/projekt-ravensbruck/interview402-1pr.html (5450 words)

	Worldisround - Walking in Warsaw - Photograph - The Ruins of Pawiak Prison
		During the war, despite being situated inside the ghetto, it was the political prison for the entire Generalgouvernement.
		The area around the Pawiak was a particularly dangerous one for passing Jews, as the guards would arrest people at random.
		The Pawiak (named after Pawia Street) was built as a prison by the Russians between 1830 and 1835.
	www.worldisround.com /articles/97105/photo24.html (234 words)

	Pawiak http://www.HolocaustResearchProject.org
		We had reached the Pawiak Prison, an island in the midst of the stormy sea of the fighting Ghetto.
		The name Pawiak struck terror in the heart during the German occupation of the city.
		Hans Burkl, deputy commander of Pawiak, a sadist and multiple murderer, was shot dead on 7 September 1943 by soldiers from the Agat detachment at the corner of Marszalkowska and Litewska Streets.
	www.holocaustresearchproject.org /nazioccupation/poland/pawaiak.html (1863 words)

	Pawiak Prison Museum \| Warsaw \| Travel Story and Pictures from Poland
		This is the site of Pawiak Prison, or rather, the largely restored remains of it.
		With most of the rest of Warsaw, the prison was completely razed to the ground by German forces in 1944.
		Pawiak prison saw around 100 000 people (around ten percent of Warsaw's population) arrive, be executed at the spot or deported to one of the concentration camps in use by Nazi Germany.
	www.traveladventures.org /continents/europe/pawiak.shtml (304 words)

	The Pawiak Prison in Warsaw
		Food at Pawiak was insufficient throughout the entire period of the German occupation.
		Pawiak became a symbol of the harsh occupation and inscriptions reading "Pawiak Pomscimy" ("Pawiak shall be avenged") appeared on walls, notice boards, and even on the pavements.
		One was under the impression that this was an ambulance carrying victims of an accident.
	www.deathcamps.org /occupation/warsawpawiak.html (741 words)

	Warsaw Voice - Pawiak Prison Museum
		While in Pawiak, Zenaida Piekarczyk wrote poetry on scraps of paper ("I know you, but not all of you./I know the sadness of your heart, your cares and regrets.") There are painted wooden Easter eggs from a care package and rosaries worn by prisoners.
		Among the most poignant artifacts is a pretty pair of embroidered booties made for a little boy born inside Pawiak.
		Pawiak Prison Museum, 24/26 Dzielna St. (at Jana Pawła II Avenue), open Wed.
	www.warsawvoice.pl /archiwum.phtml/8366 (200 words)

	Pawiak - Warsaw Travel Guide - VirtualTourist.com
		Pawiak Prison museum: I stumbled across this odd place, which looked too scary to go into.
		Pawiak was Warsaw's nastiest prison in the Tsarist era and through WWII also.
		Before the WW II it was a prison but when the WW II started Nazis made Pawiak as their head sqaud.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/Poland/Wojewodztwo_Mazowieckie/Warsaw-468976/Off_the_Beaten_Path-Warsaw-Pawiak-BR-1.html (394 words)

	Poland Lithuania Tours - About Poland
		The castle was once the seat of Polish kings but now is a museum that displays tapestries, period furniture and art from the 16th and 17th centuries.
		Pawiak Prison, the largest political prison in Poland, was built in the 1830's and used as a Tsarist prison.
		Pawiak was also used in 1939-1944 during WWII to imprison victims of the Nazi reign.
	www.poland-lithuania-tours.com /about-poland.html (1177 words)

	Their Past Your Future : Photo Album of Past Visits
		Pawiak Prison was built in 1835, but was used as a Nazi prison during the occupation of Warsaw from 1939 until it was destroyed along with the rest of the city following the Warsaw Uprising of 1944.
		During the occupation Pawiak prison saw 100,000 inmates pass through its gates, with over a third of these tortured and exterminated here, and the majority of the rest sent to concentration camps.
		The prison was a strong symbol of resistance and struggle for the Warsaw people against the Nazi enemy, and a tree that survived the war now stands at its entrance as a memorial to those who died, bedecked with commemorative plaques and messages.
	www.tpyf.com /server/show/ConGalleryCollection.2/chapterId/8/viewPage/3 (134 words)

	Pawiak - tScholars.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Approximately 37 000 of them were shot to death while further 60 000 were sent to German death and concentration camps.
		Remnants of the Pawiak prison and a dead tree with hundreds of obituaries pinned to it; after the Warsaw Uprising the tree served as a notice board for people searching for their relatives
		The final transport of prisoners took place shortly before the Warsaw Uprising, on July 30, 1944.
	www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Pawiak (364 words)

	Blessed Father Józef Jankowski sac
		Jankowski, arrested by the Gestapo, was taken to Pawiak prison in Warsaw.
		He was subjected to additional questioning and torture and, on May 28th 1941, with a convoy of prisoners, was transferred to Auschwitz, where he was registered as "prisoner no 16895".
		Jankowski, both at Oftarzew and at "Pawiak", took all responsibility upon himself, even though neither he nor the other prisoners were in any way guilty.
	pallotti.org /pol1.html (1141 words)

	Encyclopedia: Maximilian Kolbe
		Kolbe was also active as a radio amateur, with Polish call letters SP3RN, vilifying Nazi activities by reporting the truth.
		On 17 February 1941, he was arrested by German Gestapo and imprisoned in the Pawiak prison, and, on 25 May, transferred to the Auschwitz I concentration camp as prisoner #16670.
		Pawiak Pawiak was a famous prison in Warsaw built by the tsarist authorities between 1829 and 1835.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Maximilian-Kolbe (3271 words)

	Irena Sendler, Saviour of Jews
		But the Nazis became aware of Irena's activities, and on October 20, 1943 she was arrested, imprisoned and tortured by the Gestapo, who broke her feet and legs.
		She ended up in the Pawiak Prison, but no one could break her spirit.
		Though she was the only one who knew the names and addresses of the families sheltering the Jewish children, she withstood the torture, refusing to betray either her associates or any of the Jewish children in hiding.
	www.auschwitz.dk /Sendler.htm (1360 words)

	CIN - St. Maximilian Kolbe (Fr. Richard Gant) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		He was taken to Pawiak Prison in Warsaw, Poland.
		Today in Warsaw, there is a museum that commemorates the Polish nationals who were held in Pawiak Prison in the 19th century as well as during World War II.
		All the men were murdered at the Pawiak prison, she was sentenced to death and sent to Aushwitz.
	www.cin.org /saints/maxkolbe.html (1571 words)

	Pawiak from LiveJournal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		More on this later (I hope), but the Pawiak Prison Museum in Warsaw was deeply satisfying, as was the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Monument.
		We saw a prison, Pawiak, where Polish prisoners were held during the war.
		Visited the Pawiak Prison Museum, which was really good - it was a prision used by the Germans in the second world war - but strangely depressing at the same time.
	www.ljseek.com /search/Pawiak (401 words)

	World War 2: Warsaw Uprising Saving Jews
		On the fifth day of the Uprising, captain Jan announced a new objective for the company: to take the concentration camp Gesiówka, erected by the Germans in the vast, empty and wide open space of the burned out Warsaw Ghetto.
		The name of this labor and annihilation camp stems from the same of the Gesia street, which was parallel to a nearby street, Pawia, on which stood the infamous prison Pawiak, in which the Germans incarcerated Poles for their patriotic stand.
		Several hundred were executed in the nearby ruins and two thousand were sent to Buchenwald and Stutthoff concentration camps.
	www.warsawuprising.com /savejews.htm (1420 words)

	Irena Sendler
		But the Nazis became aware of Irena's activities, and on October 20, 1943 she was arrested, imprisoned and tortured by the Gestapo, who broke her feet and legs.
		She ended up in the Pawiak Prison, but no one could break her spirit.
		Though she was the only one who knew the names and addresses of the families sheltering the Jewish children, she withstood the torture, refusing to betray either her associates or any of the Jewish children in hiding.
	www.annefrank.dk /rescuers/new_page_2.htm (1158 words)

	Poland 2002 - Pawiak Prison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Pawiak prison was originally built in 1830 under Russian occupation.
		The Gestapo took hold of it and used it to hold political prisoners.
		When the Nazis retreated from Warsaw, they dynamited the building to cover up any evidence of their crimes.
	www.rantsinyourpants.com /mike/stories/poland02/pawiak.htm (123 words)

	frontline: shtetl: Biographies \| PBS
		At times, the group expanded to twenty-two persons, including distant relatives, who were forced to abandon their previous hideouts as a result of betrayals.
		Jerzy was eventually arrested by the Germans for his underground work, taken to the notorious Pawiak jail, and brutally tortured.
		In October 1943, Irena was arrested by the Gestapo, taken to the infamous Pawiak prison, and brutally tortured.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shtetl/righteous/gentilesbios.html (2630 words)

	- Sightseeing - Places of interest Poland - Pawiak Prison - In Your Pocket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		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 feared Gestapo.
		Dynamited during the German retreat, Pawiak has been restored as a memorial to all those who suffered inside, and now houses haunting photo displays, prisoners belongings and reconstructed cells.
		A mangled tree, preserved after the war, stands outside the gates bedecked with obituary notices dating from 1944.
	www.inyourpocket.com /poland/en/venue?id=POWAENW0050 (156 words)

	The Jewish ghetto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		And of course the Pawiak Prison from where many Jews where transported to the concentration
		And where in 1943 and 1944 regularly excutions where carried out.
		Pawiak Prison: Okopowa street 49/51, bus stop "Esperanto"
	www.ghptravel.com /htm/atra/at19.htm (114 words)

	List of Those Killed Trying to Save Jews
		Sent to Pawiak prison, she was shot on Dec. 10, 1943 in the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto (see: 607)
		Placed in Pawiak prison, with the others, she was shot on Dec. 10, 1943 in the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto (see: 532, 606, 701)
		Wolski, his nephew, Janusz Wysocki and all the fugitives were taken to Pawiak prison.
	www.holocaustforgotten.com /list8.htm (2113 words)

	Picture of Pawiak prison, Warsaw \| Warsaw \| Poland
		This picture was taken during a visit to Pawiak Prison Museum, Poland.
		You can see more images of Pawiak Prison Museum by clicking on the thumbnails on the right.
		You can also read more about Pawiak Prison Museum.
	www.traveladventures.org /continents/europe/pawiak01.shtml (142 words)

	'From the same clay': Memories of Poland, the pope and WWII \| The-Tidings.com
		Oberlangen was the third POW camp Donna spent time in during World War II.
		Previously she had been at Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, and before that at Pawiak, the worst of all work camps.
		So it is not surprising that, during this week of V-E Day's 60th anniversary, Donna's memories run painfully deep.
	www.the-tidings.com /2005/0506/nizynski.htm (1524 words)

	The My Hero Project - Maximilian Kolbe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Gestapo officers who were shown around the whole monastery were astonished at the small amount of food prepared for the brothers.
		Father Maximilian was sent to the infamous Pawiak prison in German-occupied Warsaw, and was singled out for special ill treatment.
		Father Maximilian and four companions were deported to Auschwitz on May 28th, 1941, which was then both a labor and a death camp.
	www.myhero.com /hero.asp?hero=mkolbe (1142 words)

	Saint Maximilian Kolbe \| Catholic-Pages.com
		On 17 February 1941, he was arrested and sent to the infamous Pawiak prison in Warsaw.
		Shortly afterwards the Franciscan habit was taken away and a prisoner's garment was substituted.
		On 28 May, Fr Maximilian was with over 300 others who were deported from Pawiak to Auschwitz.
	www.catholic-pages.com /saints/st_maximilian.asp (4174 words)

	carltakei.com/blog: Warsaw, genocide, and other fun topics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It's been overcast or raining the whole time I've been here, and most of the buildings are in that drab style of 1960s Soviet concrete architecture.
		Later, I went to the museum at the site of the Pawiak prison, where the Gestapo held (and tortured, and frequently killed) Polish political prisoners.
		I had also planned to go to the Old Town (reconstructed after WWII after being almost totally destroyed by bombing) but decided that I didn't want to be around so many other tourists.
	www2.bc.edu /%7Etakei/blog/2004/07/warsaw-genocide-and-other-fun-topics.html (241 words)

	World War 2 - Timelines - War in Europe - Eastern Europe - 1939
		The Polish garrison on the Hel Peninsula surrenders to the Germans after repeated attacks.
		The first Poles are imprisoned in Pawiak Prison in Warsaw.
		Some 100,000 people will undergo Nazi interrogations here, of whom 37,000 will be executed and 60,000 sent to concentration camps.
	www.worldwar-2.net /timelines/war-in-europe/eastern-europe/eastern-europe-index-1939.htm (1529 words)

	Biographical Data - St. Max
		After several requests Father Maximilian is allowed to publish one issue of the Knight of the Immaculata with a press run of 120,000 copies, dated December 1940 - January 1941.
		He is arrested and taken to Pawiak Prison in Warsaw by the Gestapo where he is cruelly treated.
		Father Maximilian is transported in a trainload of prisoners to Oswiecim (Auschwitz) where is is tattooed with the number 16670.
	www.consecration.com /data.html (1207 words)

	Who is NOT a Holocaust Victim?
		My grandmother was still in Pawiak prison when my grandfather was killed in Auschwitz.
		Many years after the war, I asked her about those ashes that my great-grandmother had refused to buy from the Gestapo.
		Granddaughter of Holocaust survivor: Pawiak, Ravensbruck Niece of Holocaust
	www.holocaustforgotten.com /NPAJAC.htm (626 words)

	Muzeum Więzienia Pawiak - Ekspozycja, Warszawa - Business Directory - Polish Yellow Pages
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	en.yellowpages.pl /AFE56197B1/Muzeum_Wiezienia_Pawiak-Ekspozycja.html (45 words)

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