Prison at the Daniłowiczowska Street in Warsaw Więzienie przy ulicy Daniłowiczowskiej w Warszawie (Sygn.210)

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.

Archiwum Państwowe w Warszawie

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.

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.