page_title: Bereza Kartuska prison
hierarchical_section_title: Bereza Kartuska prison
caption_attribution_description: The Bereza Kartuska detention camp, located in former Russian barracks. It was operated in 1934-1939. In the background ruins of the building for the police forces, working in the camp, in the foreground the Soviet monument, dedicated to the victims of the camp.
context_page_description: The Bereza Kartuska prison was a Detention Camp in the Second Polish Republic, based in Bereza Kartuska, Polesie Voivodeship.
  It was established in 1934 by the Polish Sanation government for the purpose of isolating and tormenting both psychically and physically political opponents, including National Democrats, communists, members of the Polish People's Party, as well as Ukrainian and Belarusian nationalists. The prisoners were sent to the camp on the basis of an administrative decision, without formal charges, judicial sanction or trial, and without the possibility of using an appeal. The use of torture was a permanent element in the treatment of prisoners. Detainees were supposed to perform penal labour, and at least 13 people died during their stay. Several academics and authors referred to Bereza Kartuska as an "internment camp".
  Created on June 17, 1934 by an order of President Ignacy Mościcki, the camp was officially established to detain people who were viewed by the Polish state as a "threat to security, peace and social order". The prisoners were detained for the time of three months with the possibility of prolonging the detention indefinitely.
context_section_description: The Bereza Kartuska prison (Polish: Miejsce Odosobnienia w Berezie Kartuskiej, literally "Place of Isolation at Bereza Kartuska") was a Detention Camp in the Second Polish Republic, based in Bereza Kartuska, Polesie Voivodeship (today Biaroza in Belarus).
  It was established in 1934 by the Polish Sanation government for the purpose of isolating and tormenting both psychically and physically political opponents, including National Democrats, communists, members of the Polish People's Party, as well as Ukrainian and Belarusian nationalists. The prisoners were sent to the camp on the basis of an administrative decision, without formal charges, judicial sanction or trial, and without the possibility of using an appeal. The use of torture was a permanent element in the treatment of prisoners. Detainees were supposed to perform penal labour, and at least 13 people died during their stay. Several academics and authors referred to Bereza Kartuska as an "internment camp".
  Created on June 17, 1934 by an order of President Ignacy Mościcki, the camp was officially established to detain people who were viewed by the Polish state as a "threat to security, peace and social order". The prisoners were detained for the time of three months with the possibility of prolonging the detention indefinitely. Beside the political prisoners, starting from October 1937, "notorious" and financial criminals were also sent to the camp.
  The camp de facto ceased to exist on the night of September 17–18, 1939 after the Soviet invasion of Poland, the detainees were released, and staff abandoned the facility.
caption: Main prison building. The white structure on the right is a post-war Soviet monument, dedicated to victims of the camp.
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