Rynek Solecki –remaining wall section (Public execution of Pawiak prisoners in November 1943)
The time of German occupation was the time of terror. The roundups performed on a wide scale aimed at bullying the civilians. The Pawiak became a detention ward for the Police and Security Service of the Warsaw District. The IV Department of Secret State Police, also known as the Gestapo, was most known. Within time Pawiak became the biggest prison in occupied Poland. The number of prisoners during 1939 -1944 oscillated around 100 000. Almost half of the sentenced lost their lives in public executions performed in Warsaw and its neighborhood. The names of the executed were put in the announcements. The Nazis performed executions even several times a day. Warsaw citizens stood up the occupants, however. The walls of the capitol became painted in slogans as “We will avenge Pawiak!” and once again in the history Poles proved this were not waste words. In summer 1943 the order was announced which stated that each particularly cruel official of Pawiak must be abolished. However, despite those brave operations, the number of street executions was growing each month. Another dozen of prisoners from Pawlak lost their lives in November 1943.