Mokotów Prison
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Mokotów Prison is a prison in Warsaw's borough of Mokotów, Poland, located at 37 Rakowiecka Street. It was built by the Russians in the final years of the foreign Partitions of Poland. During the Nazi
A plaque commemorating the victims on one of the prison's outer walls
Witold Pilecki
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Witold Pilecki, known by the codenames Roman Jezierski, Tomasz Serafiński, Druh and Witold, was a Polish World War II cavalry officer, intelligence agent, and resistance leader.
Mokotów Prison
…Butcher of Mokotow Prison." Among those held and executed in the basement-boiler-room of the Mokotów prison, often maimed and tortured beforehand, were: Witold Pilecki (executed) Hieronim Dekutowski (executed) Gen. Emil Fieldorf "Nil" (executed) Bolesław Kontrym (executed) Kazimierz Moczarski Zygmunt Szendzielarz…
Pilecki before 1939
Witold Pilecki as KL-Auschwitz prisoner KL Number 4859, 1940
Pilecki, Mokotów Prison, Warsaw, 1947
Pilecki in court, 1948