Category:16, 3 Maja Street in Augustów

English: A two-story tenement house in the city center, built around 1900 according to the design of the architect Włodzimierz Slosarski. Before the war, it belonged to the Jewish Rechtman family and housed, among other things, a popular confectionery run by Bosianek, called "U Turka". In the years 1940-1941, the NKVD and NKGB were located here, and opponents of the Soviet government were held in the basements. The owners of the building were deported to the East. During the German occupation, the building housed a bakery. In October 1944, the NKVD occupied it again. At the turn of August and September 1944, the officials tasked with organizing the PUBP for the Augustów district, due to the current course of the front line, located themselves in Sztabin. In the first days of October they moved to Krasnybór, where they occupied premises in the local presbytery. Immediately after the Red Army began its January offensive in 1945, they appeared in Augustów and on 25 January occupied a tenement house abandoned by the NKVD at that time. They set up a multi-cell detention centre in the basement. In July 1945, people arrested in the Augustów Roundup were held in the detention centre in the tenement house. In 1946, a protective wall was built around the property (it had previously been fenced with a wooden fence). The neighbouring buildings were inhabited by, among others, UB officers, which was to provide additional protection for the compound. The PUBP operated here until 1956, when the property was taken over by the MO. In 1979, the building passed into the hands of the Border Protection Office, which opened its office there in 1982. After 1956, the main building was thoroughly renovated and some farm buildings were added. Since 1992, the property has remained unused, being successively at the disposal of the provincial, district and city authorities.