Cele bezpieki: Areszt Ministerstwa Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego 1945–1954

Over an area of 600 m2, the Warsaw Rising Museum has created an exhibition showing the post-war fate of the insurgents - the communist repressions against young people who did not expect to be persecuted and tortured for fighting for independence. A team of conservators from the Museum carried out conservation work in the basement and secured several dozen traces left by prisoners (drawings, initials, sentences, etc.) in six cells. The drawings found are not clear, but it is possible to read e.g. fragments of line calendars, monograms.

The exhibition also includes memorabilia of people detained, among others, in the prison on Rakowiecka Street, also on 11 November, in Wronki, in the penal facility in Fordon or in the prison in Cracow. These are, for example, chess made of bread, a medallion made of bread, a cross, an embroidered grosgraph with a crowned eagle, a cigar box, a pencil case, a ring made of horsehair and fragments of a toothbrush, beads made of fish bones, a heart-shaped box, a fragment of a comb. The items come from a collection of memorabilia that has been running since 2015.

Three cells have been restored to their historical state, where memorabilia from donors will be displayed. The main aim of the exhibition is to juxtapose two value systems by showing security apparatus functionaries and heroes of the anti-communist underground. The new exhibition is a kind of tragic epilogue to the one presented at MPW - the fate of insurgents persecuted after the war.