Gęsiówka
Liberated Jewish women with Polish resistance fighters of the Zośka Battalion, 5 August 1944 | |
Interactive map of Gęsiówka | |
| Opened | 1875 |
|---|---|
| Closed | 1956 |
| Former name | Waffen-SS Konzentrationslager Warschau |
| City | Warsaw |
| County | Mazovia |
| Country | Poland |
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.
After the war, in 1945–56, the Gęsiówka served as a prison and labour 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 regime's secret police UB (later SB).