Warsaw Pawiak Prison [10]

In Memory of Warsaw Pawiak Prison Inmates

Subject: no
Face value: 10 pln
Alloy: 999/1000 Ag
Diameter: 32 mm
Weight: 14.14 g
Finish: proof
Mintage: 10000 pcs
On the edge: smooth
Additional: selective gilding
Date of issue: 2024-08-21
Issue price: 230 pln
The reverse of the coin depicts the Monument Tree of Pawiak against the background of prison bars.

Designer: Grzegorz Pfeifer
The obverse features a fragment of the entrance to the Pawiak Prison Museum.

Designer: Grzegorz Pfeifer

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In Memory of Warsaw Pawiak Prison Inmates

Pawiak Prison – a symbol of the struggle for independence of several generations of Poles – functioned from 1835 to 1944. Its walls isolated inmates, the vast majority of whom were political prisoners who first took up arms against the Russian invaders, and later – against the German occupiers.

The decision to build the institution was taken in 1829. Construction lasted from 1830 to 1836 and the first inmates were incarcerated there in 1835. The newly erected building was located between Dzielna Street, now defunct Więzienna Street, and Pawia Street, from whose name the customary term “Pawiak” came to apply to not only the building, but also to the entire prison complex. In the 1880s, a need arose for a female ward in Pawiak, for which ...

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