Postcard. Myslowice prison [1944].

1944 Myslowice Prison.

The establishment of a temporary police prison in Myslowice was connected with the mass arrests of Silesian insurgents, participants in the National Defense, Polish intelligentsia and social and political activists in the first months of the occupation. The existing court prisons were overcrowded. Mass shootings and deportations to concentration camps did not relieve the prisons in the face of increasing repression by the occupiers. The Myslowice prison had an investigative and segregationist character. Prisoners stayed there for up to 3 months on average. At that time the investigation was completed and the Gestapo decided on the type of punishment; most often men were sent to concentration camps in Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen, Mauthausen, and women to Ravensbruck. On the address page the note Auschwitz was written in pencil. It is likely that the addressee was sent to this camp ...