Pawiak

Pawiak (Polish pronunciation: [ˈpavjak]) was a prison built in 1835 in Warsaw, Poland.

During the January 1863 Uprising, it served as a transfer camp for Poles sentenced by Imperial Russia to deportation to Siberia.

During the World War II German occupation of Poland, it became part of the Nazi concentration-death camp apparatus in Warsaw. In 1944 it was destroyed by the Germans.

Pawiak Prison took its name from that of the street on which it stood, ulica Pawia (Polish for "Peacock Street").

Pawiak Prison was built in 1829–35 to the design of Fryderyk Florian Skarbek, prison reformer and godfather of composer Frédéric Chopin. During the nineteenth century it was under the control of the Czarist Rulers, whilst Warsaw was still a part of the Russian Empire. During this time it was the main prison of central Poland, where political prisoners and criminals alike were incarcerated.

During the January 1863 Uprising, the prison served as a transfer camp for Poles sentenced by Imperial Russia to deportation to Siberia.

After Poland regained its independence in 1918, the Pawiak became Warsaw's main prison for male criminals. (Females were detained nearby at Serbia prison.)

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