Polski
The center at Zamkowa Street is located in the space of the former farm buildings of Kraków bishops. In the history of Kielce, however, this place is engraved with a dark memory of the times when the prison operated here.
The first prisoners were transported here in 1826. Since then, this place has become a place of captivity for those fighting in the independence uprising in the 19th century, political prisoners at the beginning of the 20th century, and in the interwar period, criminal prisoners were held in cells.
The most dramatic stories took place in these walls in the years 1939-1956, when the German Correctional Facility and the Provincial Office of Public Security Prison in Kielce operated here. Currently, the safe walls of the Center bring us closer to the history of Poland from the end of the 18th century. On your journey through time, you will be accompanied by the sounds and images of old Kielce, portraits of people known from history books and ordinary citizens.
Here and there you will find snapshots of everyday life - a WWII cookbook or a wardrobe with clothes that hides a transition to the rest of the story about the Underground State. In the Center, the memory of those who lost their lives fighting for their homeland is also vivid. The suggestive exhibition in the prisons and cellars of the former prison is full of sounds and images that stimulate the imagination. It also presents authentic accounts of witnesses of the tragic events that took place in this place.
