For Olga S., the police prison on Alexanderplatz was a stop on the way to a concentration camp.
Władysław Lepieszka recalls being released from the police prison.
The prison at the police headquarters on Alexanderplatz was a place of fear for forced labourers. Many served a sentence there after an escape attempt before being sent to a penal camp. For others, it was a stop on the way to various other camps.
A shopping centre is now at the site of the police headquarters; there is a memorial plaque on the traffic island.
Address:
Grunerstraße 20
10178 Berlin
Directions:
S/U Alexanderplatz
Sources:
“Babylon in the Transport Cell”: Interview with František G., Online archive “Forced Labor 1939-1945”, za206
“Interrogation”: Interview with Olga S., 2005, Online archive “Forced Labor 1939-1945”, za335
“Fear of the People Out There”: Interview with Władysław Lepieszka, 2004, Collection of the Berliner Geschichtswerkstatt
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