Notable inmates

Bedřich Václavek (10 January 1897 – 5 March 1943) was a Czech literary theorist, critic, journalist and Marxist aesthetician.

Bekir Kaya (born 1977 in Ağrı) is a Kurdish politician of the Democratic Regions Party (DBP) and a former Mayor of Van.

Béla Zsolt (born as Béla Steiner, 8 January 1895 – 6 February 1949) was a Hungarian radical socialist journalist and politician.

Ben Abraham (born Henryk Nekrycz; December 11, 1924 – October 9, 2015) was a Polish-born writer and historian who became a naturalized Brazilian citizen.

Barend "Ben" Bril (16 July 1912 – 11 September 2003) was a Dutch boxer who competed in the 1928 Amsterdam Summer Olympics in Flyweight boxing, and became an accomplished European boxing referee and judge in the 1960s.

Benedykt Ziemilski (October 2, 1892 – 1942) was a Polish physician and researcher.

General Benjamin Richard Pieter Frans Hasselman (14 March 1898 – 2 March 1984) was an officer of the Royal Netherlands Army and chairman of the NATO Military Committee from 1957 to 1958.

Sir Benjamin Helfgott (22 November 1929 – 16 June 2023) was a Polish-born British Holocaust survivor, Olympian and champion weightlifter.

Beni Virtzberg (Hebrew: בני וירצברג; sometimes written Beni Wircberg August 12, 1928 – August 4, 1968) was an Israeli forester, Holocaust survivor and writer who was among the first in Israel to write an autobiographical account of his experiences during and after the Holocaust.