Communist Prison Camp
After the Soviet takeover of Warsaw in January 1945, the remnants of the camp were used to as a POW camp and a place of detention of the "enemies of the people's power" political prisoners by the Soviet NKVD and then by the Polish MBP until 1954 (the last prisoners left in 1956). It was the second biggest prison after the Mokotów Prison.
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