Overview
- Description
- Records of the Centralny Areszt w Warszawie-"Centralniak" at the Daniłowiczowska Street in Warsaw. Includes a register of persons detained in the prison, the book of prisoners, lists of arrests, prisoners' index, file of Janina Serafin and Noech Lejba Troper.
- Alternate Title
- Prison at the Daniłowiczowska Street in Warsaw
- Date
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inclusive:
1935-1944
- Credit Line
- Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Collection Creator
- Centralny Areszt w Warszawie-"Centralniak"
- Biography
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In 1823, at the back of the Warsaw Town Hall at the Daniłowiczowska street was founded a Police Detention Center. Because it was called the Central Prison, the residents of Warsaw popularly called it "Centralniak." Approx. in 1900, next to "Centralniak", was built the arrest place for political and criminal prisoners, which was an auxiliary unit of the X Pavilion of the Citadel and Pawiak.
During World War II, the prison complex was used by the German occupant. There was a judicial prison in it. Among the prisoners there were also Jews. Among other arrested there were a group of chess players of Jewish descent (Dawid Przepiórka, Stanisław Kohn, Mojżesz Łowcki, Achilles Frydman and Jakub Rabinowicz). They were arrested at the Kwieciński chess café at ul. Marszałkowska 76 in connection with the so-called Kott's case. The central prison complex of the Central Arrest was burnt during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. No traces of it remained.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Registers. Certificates.
- Extent
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3,278 digital images : PDF.
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged in six series: 1. Main register (Police Book) of persons detained in the Investigative Office for the Capital City of Warsaw at the Daniłowiczowska Street, 1940-1941; 2. The book of income and expenditure of prisoners, 1944; 3. Lists of arrests and arrivals, 1942; 4. Index of prisoners at the Daniłowiczowska Street in Warsaw, 1942-1944; 5. Files of the prisoners: Janina Serafin, 1935-1937, and Noech Lejb Troper, 1936-1938; 6. Vaccination certificates, ambulatory cards concerning prisoners.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Reproduction of more than 100 pages of copies of documents for researchers or other institutions requires a written permission of the General Director of the State Archives of the Republic of Poland. Publication of more than 10 complete documents in an individual work requires the written authorization of the General Director. The Museum may not publish any archival material obtained from the General Director, including specific archives under his control, on the Internet, the World Wide Web, or any other publicly accessible on-line network without the written permission of the General Director. Citation of the materials in any publication must refer to the Museum and the Polish State Archives and must include the name of the archival group and catalogue number of the originals.
- Copyright Holder
- Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland--Warsaw. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Jewish. Police administration--Poland--History--German occupation, 1939-1944. Prisoners--Poland--Warsaw--History--20th century. Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Warsaw--History. Prisons.
- Geographic Name
- Warsaw (Poland)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Archiwum Państwowe w Warszawie
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Archiwum Państwowe w Warszawie, Poland, Sygn. 210. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in May 2018.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-06-09 07:26:38
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