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Gęsiówka, the Glossary

Gęsiówka is the colloquial Polish name for a prison that once existed on Gęsia ("Goose") Street in Warsaw, Poland, and which, under German occupation during World War II, became a Nazi concentration camp.^[1]

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Chronicles of Terror

Chronicles of Terror is a digital internet archive established by the in August 2016.

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Death marches during the Holocaust

During the Holocaust, death marches (Todesmärsche) were massive forced transfers of prisoners from one Nazi camp to other locations, which involved walking long distances resulting in numerous deaths of weakened people.

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Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945

Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945 is a seven-part encyclopedia series that explores the history of the concentration camps, ghettos, forced-labor camps, and other sites of detention, persecution, or state-sponsored murder run by Nazi Germany and other Axis powers in Europe and Africa.

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Enemy of the people

The terms enemy of the people and enemy of the nation are designations for the political opponents and for the social-class opponents of the power group within a larger social unit, who, thus identified, can be subjected to political repression.

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Eugeniusz Stasiecki

Eugeniusz Stasiecki codename: Piotr Pomian, Poleski, Piotr (19 February 1913 in Radom - 4 September 1944 in Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish Scoutmaster (harcmistrz), captain of the AK-Szare Szeregi.

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Geoffrey P. Megargee

Geoffrey P. Megargee (November 4, 1959 – August 1, 2020) was an American historian and author who specialized in World War II military history and the history of the Holocaust.

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German camps in occupied Poland during World War II

The German camps in occupied Poland during World War II were built by the Nazis between 1939 and 1945 throughout the territory of the Polish Republic, both in the areas annexed in 1939, and in the General Government formed by Nazi Germany in the central part of the country (see map).

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History of Poland (1939–1945)

The history of Poland from 1939 to 1945 encompasses primarily the period from the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union to the end of World War II.

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History of Poland (1945–1989)

The history of Poland from 1945 to 1989 spans the period of Marxist–Leninist regime in Poland after the end of World War II.

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Home Army

The Home Army (Armia Krajowa,; abbreviated AK) was the dominant resistance movement in German-occupied Poland during World War II.

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Institute of National Remembrance

The Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation (Instytut Pamięci Narodowej – Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu, abbreviated IPN) is a Polish state research institute in charge of education and archives which also includes two public prosecution service components exercising investigative, prosecution and lustration powers.

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Jewish Cemetery, Warsaw

The Warsaw Jewish Cemetery is one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Europe and in the world. Gęsiówka and Jewish Cemetery, Warsaw are Holocaust locations in Poland.

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Military prison

A military prison is a prison operated by a military.

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Ministry of Public Security (Poland)

The Ministry of Public Security (Ministerstwo Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego), was the secret police, intelligence and counter-espionage agency operating in the Polish People's Republic.

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Mordechai Anielewicz

Mordechai Anielewicz (מרדכי אנילביץ'; 1919 – 8 May 1943) was the leader of the Jewish Combat Organization (Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa, ŻOB) during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; the largest Jewish resistance movement during the Second World War.

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Nazi concentration camps

From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany operated more than a thousand concentration camps (Konzentrationslager), including subcamps on its own territory and in parts of German-occupied Europe.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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NKVD

The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyy komissariat vnutrennikh del), abbreviated as NKVD, was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union from 1934 to 1946.

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Panther tank

The Panther tank, officially Panzerkampfwagen V Panther (abbreviated PzKpfw V) with ordnance inventory designation: Sd.Kfz. 171, is a German medium tank of World War II.

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Pawiak

Pawiak was a prison built in 1835 in Warsaw, Congress Poland. Gęsiówka and Pawiak are Defunct prisons in Poland, Holocaust locations in Poland, Warsaw Uprising and Warsaw concentration camp.

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Platoon

A platoon is a military unit typically composed of two to four squads, sections, or patrols.

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Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.

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POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews

POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews (Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich) is a museum on the site of the former Warsaw Ghetto. Gęsiówka and POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews are Muranów (City Information System area).

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Polish Land Forces

The Land Forces are the land forces of the Polish Armed Forces.

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Polish resistance movement in World War II

In Poland, the resistance movement during World War II was led by the Home Army.

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Radosław Group

Radosław Group (Zgrupowanie Radosław) was the codename of a group of Kedyw, a Polish World War II Armia Krajowa organization, units during World War II created shortly before the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising.

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Ryszard Białous

Ryszard Białous codename: Jerzy (b. 4 April 1914 in Warsaw - 24 March 1992 in Neuquén, Argentina) was a Polish scoutmaster (harcmistrz) captain of the AK-Szare Szeregi.

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Sicherheitsdienst

Sicherheitsdienst ("Security Service"), full title Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS ("Security Service of the Reichsführer-SS"), or SD, was the intelligence agency of the SS and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany.

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Sicherheitspolizei

The (Security Police), often abbreviated as SiPo, was a term used in Germany for security police.

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Stahlhelm

The Stahlhelm (German for "steel helmet") is a term used to refer to a series of German steel combat helmet designs intended to protect the wearer from common battlefield hazards such as shrapnel.

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Wacław Micuta

Wacław Micuta (pseudonym Wacek; 6 December 1915, in Petrograd, Russia – 21 September 2008, in Geneva, Switzerland) was a Polish economist, World War II veteran, and United Nations functionary.

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Warsaw

Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and largest city of Poland. Gęsiówka and Warsaw are Holocaust locations in Poland.

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Warsaw concentration camp

The Warsaw concentration camp (see other names) was a German concentration camp in occupied Poland during World War II. Gęsiówka and Warsaw concentration camp are Buildings and structures in Warsaw and Warsaw Uprising.

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Warsaw Ghetto

The Warsaw Ghetto (Warschauer Ghetto, officially Jüdischer Wohnbezirk in Warschau, "Jewish Residential District in Warsaw"; getto warszawskie) was the largest of the Nazi ghettos during World War II and the Holocaust.

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Warsaw Uprising

The Warsaw Uprising (powstanie warszawskie; Warschauer Aufstand), sometimes referred to as the August Uprising (powstanie sierpniowe), was a major World War II operation by the Polish underground resistance to liberate Warsaw from German occupation.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Zośka Battalion

Battalion Zośka (pronounced /'zɔɕ.ka/; 'Sophie' in Polish) was a paramilitary scouts battalion that specialized in field intelligence gathering, irregular warfare and scouting of the Polish resistance movement organisation - Home Army (Armia Krajowa or "AK") during World War II.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gęsiówka

Also known as Gesiówka, Gęsiówka concentration camp.

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See also

Defunct prisons in Poland

Muranów (City Information System area)

Warsaw Uprising

Warsaw concentration camp

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