Hotel Palace (Zakopane)
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 Hotel Palace |
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| place | Zakopane | |
| Client | Włodzimierz tailor | |
| Construction year | 1930 | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 17 '29 .9 " N , 19 ° 57' 59.9" E | |
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The Hotel Palace was built in Zakopane in 1930 . After the invasion of Poland , the hotel was taken over by the occupying forces. It served as the headquarters of the Gestapo from October 1939 to January 1945 and gained notoriety as the “torture cellar of Podhale ”. Wincenty Galica , Bronisław Czech , Piotr Dańkowski , Ernest Durkalec , Franciszek Gajowniczek , Izydor Gąsienica-Łuszczek , Stanisław Marusarz and Helena Marusarzówna , among others , were tortured in the hotel . In total, about two thousand people were held captive in the building, of whom about four hundred were murdered there. In 1994 Wincenty Galica initiated the establishment of the Museum of Resistance in the hotel. The prisoners' drawings can still be seen on the cellar walls of the hotel.
32 Gestapo employees were stationed in the Hotel Palace, the number of which was later increased to 80.
- Commanders:
- Robert Weißmann , SS-Hauptsturmführer (No. SS-5082, No. NSDAP 147 328), sentenced to seven years in prison in Freiburg in 1965.
- Richard Arno Sehmisch , SS-Hauptscharführer , sentenced to four and a half years in prison in Freiburg in 1965.
- Deputy Commander:
- Mertens, SS-Untersturmführer
- Other employees:
- Rudolf Heinrich Bennewitz, SS-Hauptscharführer
- Herbert Betscher, SS Untersturmführer
- Robert Kunisch, SS-Hauptscharführer
- Hermann Proisky, SS-Hauptsturmführer
- Robert Tischer, SS-Hauptsturmführer
- Fritz Bayerlein, SS-Hauptsturmführer
- Heinrich Meier, SS-Hauptsturmführer
- Kurt Dreissig, SS-Hauptscharführer
- Johann Wilsch, SS-Hauptscharführer
- Bohm, SS-Hauptscharführer
- Kurt Wulkau, SS-Hauptscharführer
- Otto Gundlach
- Hermann Hischy
- Johann Rausch
- Josef König, SS-Oberscharführer
- Franz Victorini, SS Oberscharführer
- Martin Opitz, senior detective assistant
- Max Stevens, senior detective assistant
- Karl Nanen, senior detective assistant
- Fritz Wegner
- Martin Schmidt
- Franz Maywald
- Karl Nolke, SS Oberscharführer
- Fritz Karhof
- Wilhelm Schreder
- Juergens
- Fritz Brunner
- Jailer
- Walter Fiedler
- Antoni Fielder
- Franz Gold
- Fritz Heidel
- Adolf Weber
- Erich honey
- translator
- Wiktor Blaude
- Fritz Chmielewski
- Joseph Dumaradzki
- Roman Knieciński
- Adolf Krupanek
- Marian Mikus
- Bruno Mazurkiewicz
- Stompka
- Sepp Rohl
- Fritz Linder
- Administrative officials
- Otto Martin
- Otto Renz
- Erich Schiller
- Johan Gerlach
literature
- Alfons Filar, Michał Leyko, Palace Katownia Podhala. Tajemnice Lochów Gestapowskiej Placówki w Zakopanem , Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, 1970.
