Dark sights in Warsaw
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Mauzoleum Walki I Męczeństwa
Mauzoleum Walki i Męczeństwa, a branch of the Pawiak Prison Museum. Like Pawiak, this building was used by the Gestapo for interrogation, torture and murder, and now stands as a memorial to the thousands of Poles who passed through its doors. With its depressing basement holding cells and Gestapo officer’s interrogation room (complete with original bullwhips, coshes, knuckledusters etc), it’s a hard place to visit.
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Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Inside the Saxon Gardens, the remnants of the Saxon Palace (Pałac Saski), which was destroyed during WWII, shelter the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The guard is changed every hour, and groups of soldiers marching back and forth between the tomb and the Radziwiłł Palace are a regular sight, though the big event is the ceremonial changing of the guard that takes place every Sunday at noon.
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Jewish Cemetery
The Jewish Cemetery, founded in 1806, it suffered little during the war and still boasts more than 150,000 tombstones, the largest collection of its kind in Europe. Large parts are, however, neglected and very overgrown, making it a forlorn place. A notice near the entrance lists the graves of many eminent Polish Jews, including Ludwik Zamenhof, creator of the international artificial language Esperanto.
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