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Pawiak
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Capacity
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1835
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 29 May 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
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Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1835
Region
Warsaw
Security level
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Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Notable inmates
Zygmunt DuszyÅski1914–1973 · politician
Karol Kumuniecki1894–1945 · military officer
Józef Balcerzak1903–1942 · trade unionist
Maurycy Orzech1891–1943 · economistMaurycy Orzech (Polish pronunciation: [mawËrɨtÍ¡sɨ ËÉÊÉx]; nom de guerre: Janczyn; 1891 â August 1943 in Pawiak, Warsaw) was a Polish Jewish economist, journalist, politician and a leader of the Jewish Bund in interwar Poland.
Benedykt Bornstein1880–1948 · philosopher.jpg)
Jan Krawczyk1888–1940 · Catholic priest- Leon Wanat1906–1977 · teacher
WÅodzimierz Wilkanowicz1904–1964 · painter.jpg)
Stefan Sikorski1907–1940 · athletics competitor
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Contact & address
No public contact details available.
Conditions Risk Score
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Data completeness
16%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q116366)
- Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Pawiak. Retrieved July 23, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/pawiak
Chicago
"Pawiak." World Prisons. Accessed July 23, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/pawiak.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-pawiak,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Pawiak},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/pawiak},
urldate = {2026-07-23}
}