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Dzielna 24/26, Śródmieście, Warszawa
The museum on Dzielna Street commemorates Pawiak — one of the most modern prisons in the Polish lands at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, used in turn as a remand, criminal and political prison. Its grim fame came from the repressions after the January Uprising, in 1905 and under German occupation. Practically all that survives of the buildings is the right gate pillar.
The route leads through a reconstruction of the corridor of Ward VII and its cells, with accounts, photographs and personal belongings of prisoners, and the only original cell door. In the hall of relics and secret notes the smuggled messages can be read and heard, and a separate place belongs to the Pawiak Tree — witness to the crimes, today a monument to the murdered.
The museum is a branch of the Museum of Independence, and the display is completed by ceramic sculptures by Zofia Pociłowska-Kann, imprisoned here during the war. The exhibition is small and emotionally demanding, better suited to older children. Driving a motorhome into the very centre of Warsaw is awkward — public transport is easier.
