Alt Moabit Prison in Berlin. Folded letter sent from Oflag VIIA Murnau POW camp by Major Dr. Wladyslaw Suwalski [1942].

1942 Alt Moabit Prison in Berlin.

Folded letter sent from Oflag VIIA Murnau POW camp by Major Dr. Wladyslaw Suwalski to his son Sigmund imprisoned in Alt Moabit prison in Berlin.

Alt Moabit detention center. This torture chamber held hundreds of Poles, mostly political prisoners, brought from various prisons in the General Government. Refugees from prisoner of war and forced labor camps in Germany were also held there. Most of them were arrested for involvement in the intelligence services of coalition countries and for practicing anti-Hitler propaganda. They served their sentences in prison while awaiting trial.