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Białystok Detention Center

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27: 211:- the commander of the execution squad. Probably already at that time, some sentences were carried out with a single shot to the back of the head. From the turn of 1946/1947 the sentences were carried out by individual executioners - prison officers using handguns (the so-called Katyn method), in the same basement of the administrative building. The facility's highest population in post-war period took place in 1950, when it held about two thousands prisoners. 707: 1410: 1422: 1434: 233: 197:
of the 2nd Belorussian Front. During this period, prisoners were brought to the prison, from whom transports were then formed to Soviet camps. By the end of January 1945, about 5 thousand people had been deported from the prison to the Soviet Union. After the end of mass deportations, the single-cell
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In the common room of the administrative building of the prison in Białystok, court hearings were held, during which various sentences were passed, including the death penalty. These sentences, in most cases, were carried out on the premises. In the years 1944–1956, over 250 death sentences were
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officers. A dozen or so people died in this way. In 1946, most of the hundred or so executions were carried out by three masked executioners, probably local UB officers, supervised by an employee of the Investigation Department of the
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in 1956, the facility housed the Central Prison, then the Investigation Detention Center, the Provincial Board of Penal Institutions, and finally the Investigation Detention Center again, which has been operating to this day. After
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This prison complex was built in 1911–1912. When constructed, the facility was located on the outskirts of the city, currently surrounded by residential district. It was used first by
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section of the Białystok prison was taken over by NKVD officers, who handed it over to the Investigation Department of the WUBP in Białystok in the summer of 1945.
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was introduced in December 1981, it was used to hold interned opposition members. In 2002, the complex was entered into the register of historical monuments.
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carried out in the prison. Almost until the end of 1945, convicts were shot with automatic weapons in the prison yard by two
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units, and some of its premises were given over to the counterintelligence
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Bema District
Białystok
Poland
Coordinates
53°07′25″N 23°08′26″E / 53.12361°N 23.14056°E / 53.12361; 23.14056
Polish Prison Service
Polish
detention center
prison
Bema District
Białystok
Podlaskie Voivodeship
Tsarist Russia
World War II
first by the Soviets, and then by the Germans
end of the war
integration of Białystok
Polish People's Republic
NKVD
SMERSH
UB
WUBP
October Thaw
martial law

Białystok Detention Center
"Sto lat białostockiego więzienia"
Oniszczuk & Wiśniewski 2011
Kułak 1996

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