Gęsiówka

Gęsiówka
Liberated Jewish women with Polish resistance fighters of the Zośka Battalion, 5 August 1944
Opened1875
Closed1956
Former nameWaffen-SS Konzentrationslager Warschau
CityWarsaw
CountyMazovia
CountryPoland

Gęsiówka (Polish pronunciation: [ɡɛ̃ˈɕufka]) is the colloquial Polish name for a prison that once existed on Gęsia ("Goose") Street in Warsaw, Poland, and which, under German occupation during World War II, became a Nazi concentration camp.

In 1945–56 the Gęsiówka served as a prison and labor camp, operated first by the Soviet NKVD to imprison Polish resistance fighters of the Home Army and other opponents of Poland's new Stalinist regime, then by the Polish communist secret police.