the Ławica Airport detention site
우비차 공항 구금소
The Ławica Airport detention site was the detention facility to which people arrested after the suppression of the 1956 Poznań Uprising were taken for interrogation. Security organs conducted coercive investigations there, including physical abuse; a security report recorded 746 detainees by 8 August 1956.
In depth
Mass detentions began during the suppression of the Poznań Uprising and continued for weeks after 28 June 1956. Detainees were taken to Ławica Airport for interrogation; the Institute of National Remembrance cites a security-service report recording 746 detainees by 8 August. The detention and coercive investigations formed a central part of the post-uprising repression aimed at prosecuting participants.
Sources
- Wikipedia (EN) (supports the detention of protesters at Ławica Airport, brutal interrogation, and the total of 746 detainees by 8 August 1956)
- eng.ipn.gov.pl (Institute of National Remembrance source supporting 746 detentions by 8 August and testimony obtained through physical abuse)