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Bereza Kartuska Prison

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who also calls it a concentration camp, notes that the establishment of the facility was a norm of its times, similar to other facilities where political opponents were locked up, often in an extrajudicial manner. (Like the giant German or Soviet networks of concentration camps, degrees of brutality
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According to the surviving documentation of the camp, more than 3,000 people were overall detained in Bereza Kartuska from July 1934 until August 29, 1939. However, the camp's authorities stopped formally registering detainees in September 1939, after mass arrests began. According to incomplete data
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Such threats also concern researchers who use the term "concentration camp" in relation to crimes committed by Polish state officials, consisting in creating conditions resulting in death from illness, starvation and exhaustion of political prisoners. It applies to camps in: Bereza Kartuska
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Conditions were exceptionally harsh, and only one inmate managed to escape. Only one suicide occurred; on 5 February 1939, inmate Dawid Cymerman slit his throat in a toilet. The number of deaths in detention was kept artificially low by releasing prisoners who were in poor health. According to
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From 1934 to 1937, the facility usually housed 100–500 inmates at a time. In April 1938 the number went up to 800. In early 1938, the Polish government suddenly increased the number of inmates by sending 4,500 Ukrainian nationalists, terrorists, and members of
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of 1939, Polish authorities started mass arrests of people suspected of such sympathies. Some members of the German minority in Poland were detained in whole families, including women (previously never detained in the camp).
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Magierowski, Mateusz (2016). "(A)symmetry of (Non-)memory: The Missed Opportunity to Work Through the Traumatic Memory of the Polish–Ukrainian Ethnic Conflict in Pawłokoma".
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Ukrainska Povstanska Armiya - zhidno zi svidchennia nimetskykh ta radianskykh arkhiviv (The Ukrainian Insurgent Army, according to Testimony in German and Soviet Archives)
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were also detained starting from October 1937. Citizens suspected of pro-German sympathies were first detained in Bereza in the middle 1938. In the first days of the
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served as its commander. The average prisoner would spend 8 months in the camp. In the first three years of its history, the camp incarcerated people perceived as
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wrote that "the rigour detectable in Beraza Kartuska camp can by no means be compared with the dreadful conditions of the Nazi or Soviet-organized labour camps".
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Constitutional Developments of the Habsburg Empire in the Last Decades before its Fall: The Materials of Polish-Hungarian Conference. Cracow, September 2007
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to detain persons who were viewed by the Polish state as a "threat to security, peace, and social order" or alternately to isolate and demoralize
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Lagzi, Gábor (2004). "The Ukrainian Radical National Movement in Inter-War Poland - the Case of Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN)".
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Ladusev U.F. Communist party of Western Belarus as organizer of workers struggle for democratic rights and freedoms. Minsk, 1976, Page 24.
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Copsey, Nathaniel (2008). "Remembrance of Things Past: the Lingering Impact of History on Contemporary Polish–Ukrainian Relations".
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Besides political prisoners, starting in October 1937 recidivists and financial criminals were also sent to the camp. During the
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Prisoners were accommodated within the main compound, in a three-story brick building. A small white structure served for
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The Bereza Kartuska Prison was organized by the director of the Political Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs,
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Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide in the Second Republic, 1918–1947
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The first inmates - Polish ONR activists - arrived on July 17, 1934. A few days later, OUN activists arrived:
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government's opponents openly criticized the legal basis for its establishment and operation, calling it a "
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and number of prisoners aside.) Describing Bereza Kartuska as a concentration camp may be against the
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in September 1939, the camp guards fled on news of the German advance, and the prisoners were freed.
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organization were detained in the camp. They were ethnic Ukrainians, previously residing in the
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Polish nationalists - Zygmunt Dziarmaga, Władysław Chackiewicz, Jan Jodzewicz, Edward Kemnitz,
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Obóz odosobnienia w Berezie Kartuskiej 1934–39 (The Bereza Kartuska Isolation Camp, 1934–39)
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Obóz odosobnienia w Berezie Kartuskiej 1934–39 (The Bereza Kartuska Isolation Camp, 1934–39)
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Obóz odosobnienia w Berezie Kartuskiej 1934–39 (The Bereza Kartuska Isolation Camp, 1934–39)
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Belarusian nationalists - Viachaslau Bahdanovich, Uladzislau Pauliukouski, Juljan Sakovich
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Misiuk, Andrzej (2007). "Police and Policing Under the Second Polish Republic, 1918–39".
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Misiuk, Andrzej (2007). "Police and Policing Under the Second Polish Republic, 1918–39".
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Ukrainska Povstanska Armiya: zhidno zi svidchennia nimetskykh ta radianskykh arkhiviv
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Modern scholarship has characterized the facility as a concentration camp, including
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ceased to exist on the night of September 17–18, 1939 when, after learning about the
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Polish communists - Henryk Bromboszcz, Leib Dajez, Abram Germański (died there),
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The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569–1999.
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Bereza Kartuska Prison was established on 17 June 1934 by order of President
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Scattered: The Forced Relocation of Poland's Ukrainians After World War II
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Scattered: The Forced Relocation of Poland's Ukrainians After World War II
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It was created on July 12, 1934, in former Russian barracks and prison at
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Silentium: And Other Reflections On Memory, Sorrow, Place, and the Sacred
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members who were incarcerated at Bereza Kartuska testified to the use of
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from Soviet sources, at least 10,000 people had gone through the prison.
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Marples, David R. (2010). "Anti-Soviet Partisans and Ukrainian Memory".
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Marples, David R. (2010). "Anti-Soviet Partisans and Ukrainian Memory".
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Heroes and Villains: Creating National History in Contemporary Ukraine
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on the authority of a June 17, 1934, order issued by Polish President
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God's Playground A History of Poland: Volume II: 1795 to the Present
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Keller, Lech (2002). "Non-Science Fiction Prose of Stanislaw Lem".
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Zdzisław J. Winnicki, "Bereza Kartuska – jak było naprawdę?", 2008
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Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist
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Policing Interwar Europe: Continuity, Change and Crisis, 1918–40
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Policing Interwar Europe: Continuity, Change and Crisis, 1918–40
431:(whose given name is sometimes stated as "Jan"), of Poznań, and 1326:"Police and Policing Under the Second Polish Republic, 1918–39" 1208:"Police and Policing Under the Second Polish Republic, 1918–39" 954:(1979) gives the number of deaths as 17. Ukrainian historian, 1758:
G. Motyka, Ukraińska partyzantka, 1942-1960, PAN, 2006, p. 65
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Jerzy Jan Lerski; Piotr Wróbel; Richard J. Kozicki (1996).
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area. The whole compound was encircled by an electrified
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Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica
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without provocation, punishment for inmates' use of the
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Individuals were incarcerated at Bereza Kartuska by
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Faithful Unto Death: The Story of Arthur Zygielbaum
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Former prison building in 2010, to be reconstructed
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University of Wisconsin Press. p. ix. 8: 1010:as a result of his stay in Bereza Kartuska. 255: 2176:. Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 159–171. 1462:. Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 159–171. 922:, Jan Mozyrko (died there), Janka Shutovich 1796: 1794: 1182:List of concentration and internment camps 317:on the basis of an administrative decision 61: 2470: 2335:. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2005: 1995: 1730: 1728: 1726: 1724: 1722: 1720: 1580:Historical dictionary of Poland, 966-1945 1076:Miejsce Odosobnienia w Berezie Kartuskiej 535:and, for some dozen days, the journalist 257:Miejsce Odosobnienia w Berezie Kartuskiej 109:Location of Bereza Kartuska within Poland 582: 1198: 1129:United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 867:, Bolesław Świderski, Witold Borowski, 385:of Polish Minister of Internal Affairs 2694:Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists 2386:Kalina Błażejowska (7 November 2018). 1523:Braun, Connie T. (26 September 2017). 1243:Rossolinski, Grzegorz (October 2014). 934:Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists 513:Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists 458:and political opponents of the ruling 391:Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists 2544:Regio - Minorities, Politics, Society 2518:(Encyclopedia of Poland), p. 45. 1853:God's Playground: A History of Poland 1573: 1571: 1303:. Workmen's Circle. pp. 42, 43. 361:Former building of the prison in 2010 7: 2556:(in Polish). Toruń: Adam Marszałek. 2199:East European Politics and Societies 1978:Morawiec, Arkadiusz (January 2019). 1706:, "Belarus: At a Crossroads" (1993, 882:, Szymon Dobrzyński (aka "Eckstein") 2238:. Taylor & Francis. p. 7. 1855:, Columbia University Press, 2005, 424:; they identify its commandants as 334:Detainees were expected to perform 295:of the Sanation government such as 1361:Norman Davies (24 February 2005). 511:Prisoners included members of the 342:, and at least 13 prisoners died. 315:. Prisoners were sent to the camp 25: 2648:10 września 1930. Droga do Berezy 2077:The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review 1966:Poland and Its Fate, 1918 to 1939 1916:"Anti-Jewish Agitation in Poland" 901:, Hryhory Klymiv, Omelian Matla, 523:(ONR), as well as members of the 327:, and without the possibility of 2472:10.4467/2543408XZOP.18.003.10059 2372:The History of Polish Literature 2235:Belarus: A Denationalized Nation 871:, Adam Doboszyński, Leon Mirecki 264:government from 1934 to 1939 in 100: 93: 77: 2259:Reilly, Diana Howansky (2013). 1270:Howansky Reilly, Diana (2013). 1112:for the Bereza Kartuska inmate 381:, to create the prison was the 2704:Political repression in Poland 2669:Western Belorussia (1918–1939) 2526:(in Ukrainian). Lviv: Spolom. 1882:. Wydawnictwo UJ. p. 12. 1096:. It was later popularized by 543:found themselves in the camp. 531:(PPS). 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(2007). 1833:February 26, 2010, at the 1597:Mikołaj Falkowski (2008). 1584:Greenwood Publishing Group 1037:, and south of that was a 689:Peasant parties' activists 637:Far-right parties' members 2684:Defunct prisons in Poland 2151:10.1080/09668130801999847 1902:Śleszyński 2003a, p. 151. 1625:Śleszyński 2003a, p. 100. 1599:"Wacław Kostek-Biernacki" 1560:January 15, 2008, at the 1437:10.1080/09668130801999847 1156:, according to historian 885:Ukrainian nationalists - 863:, Mieczysław Prószyński, 484:Soviet invasion of Poland 389:on June 15, 1934, by the 347:German invasion of Poland 88: 76: 69: 2587:(in Polish). 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Bereza Kartuska prison
52°33′N 24°58′E / 52.550°N 24.967°E / 52.550; 24.967
Concentration camp

Bereza Kartuska Prison is located in Poland
Coordinates
52°33′N 24°58′E / 52.550°N 24.967°E / 52.550; 24.967
Bereza Kartuska
Polesie Voivodeship
Second Polish Republic
National Democrats
communists
Polish People's Party
Ukrainian
Belarusian nationalists
Sanation
Bereza Kartuska
Polesie Voivodeship
Belarus
internment camp
concentration camp
Ignacy Mościcki
political opponents
National Democrats
communists
Polish People's Party
Ukrainian
Belarusian nationalists
on the basis of an administrative decision
formal charges

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