Investigator custody in Kraków
Kraków, Poland · built 1905
The Former Kraków-Podgórze Detention Centre (Dawny Areszt Śledczy Kraków Podgórze) - a historic building of the former Imperial and Royal Podgórze county court and detention center located at 3 Stefana Czarnieckiego Street in Podgórze, the former district of Kraków, Poland. Built in 1905, from design by Ferdynand Liebling. During World War II, it was a Nazi German prison, a place of secret detention and torture of Polish members of the Resistance, It is memorialized as a notorious site of martyrdom during the German occupation of Poland. The prison facility had a Gestapo station attached to it. The prison was initially incorporated within the borders of the Kraków Ghetto when that district was created by the Nazis in March 1941; however, in the redistricting of June 1942 (following mass deportations of the Ghetto population) the whole street was placed outside the confines of the Ghetto.
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