Zakopane

Palace Hotel

  ul. Tytusa Chałubińskiego 7     more than a year ago
Photo by Piotrekwas, CC-BY-SA-3.0-PL
Ominously nicknamed the "Podhale torture chamber," this modernist 1930 hotel housed a Gestapo station during WWII. It is estimated that some 2000 prisoners were brutally tortured here during Nazi occupation; of those, around 400 were executed or died of their injuries, and many more were shipped off to concentration camps. There is currently a modestly sized exhibition in the hotel's basement, but your chances of visiting are rather slim - when we last checked, it was only open on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 16:00 and 17:00 (yes, that's two hours per week).

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