Rembertów () is a
district
A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivision ...
of the city of
Warsaw
Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officiall ...
, the capital of
Poland
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. Between 1939 and 1957 Rembertów was a separate town, after which it was incorporated as part of the borough of
Praga-Południe
Praga-South ( pl, Praga-Południe, ) is a district of Warsaw located on the east bank of the Vistula River. It consists of Grochów, Gocław, Kamionek and Saska Kępa.
History
The area of today's Praga-South has been inhabited since at le ...
. Between 1994 and 2002 it formed a separate
commune of ''Warszawa-Rembertów''. In the 1940s it was a site of a prison operated first by Nazis and then by Soviets.
The borough of Rembertów covers 19.30 km² and as of 2004 had 21,893 inhabitants. It is sparsely populated; more than 30% of the borough is covered by forests. Parts of it form the Forest Reserve.
Rembertów is home to the
Academy of National Defence, established in 1947 as the Academy of General Staff (''Akademia Sztabu Głównego''). It is here that military executions were carried out under the communist regime. From 1970 to 1988 three soldiers were shot by firing squad for murder with rape.
Neighbourhoods within the district
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Kawęczyn
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Nowy Rembertów
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Stary Rembertów
Photo gallery
File:Warszawa Rembertów railway station 2012 (5).JPG, Warsaw Rembertow Railway station
File:Warszawa Rembertów railway station 2012 (3).JPG, Warsaw Rembertow Railway station
File:Pomnik ofiar obozu NKWD w Rembertowie 2018.jpg, A monument to the victims of the NKVD
The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (russian: Наро́дный комиссариа́т вну́тренних дел, Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del, ), abbreviated NKVD ( ), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union.
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Soviet terror
File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1972-066-19, Polnische Kampftruppenschule Rembertow.jpg, Polish cadet academy, now the Library (pre-1945)
File:Zołnierka warsaw.JPG, Żołnierska Street
File:Kawęczyn-Wygoda-Warszawa.jpg, View of Kawęczyn-Wygoda borough
File:Warszawa - Rembertow - ul Cyrulikow pomnik 2012 (2).JPG, The Monument to Victims of Nazism
See also
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Attack on the NKVD Camp in Rembertów
References
External links
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Jewish Community in Rembertówat
Virtual Shtetl
The Virtual Shtetl ( pl, Wirtualny Sztetl) is a bilingual Polish-English portal of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, devoted to the Jewish history of Poland.
History
The Virtual Shtetl website was officially launched on June ...
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