abandoned
Masza
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with her Masha (Volks) in Zofiowka (psychiatric hospital)
Zofiówka Sanatorium is a defunct abandoned mental health facility in Otwock in Poland, built at the beginning of the 20th century. Zofiówka initially had 95 beds, but this number had increased to 275 by 1935. The institution was still working during the early stages of the occupation of Poland, but the conditions dramatically worsened. Almost 400 patients were sentenced to a slow and torturous death by starvation as part of the Nazi extermination Aktionen. Only a few doctors, who managed to escape to Warsaw by ambulance, survived. Some of the staff people committed suicide.
abandoned
Masza
www.flickr.com/photos/bubbastudio
with her Masha (Volks) in Zofiowka (psychiatric hospital)
Zofiówka Sanatorium is a defunct abandoned mental health facility in Otwock in Poland, built at the beginning of the 20th century. Zofiówka initially had 95 beds, but this number had increased to 275 by 1935. The institution was still working during the early stages of the occupation of Poland, but the conditions dramatically worsened. Almost 400 patients were sentenced to a slow and torturous death by starvation as part of the Nazi extermination Aktionen. Only a few doctors, who managed to escape to Warsaw by ambulance, survived. Some of the staff people committed suicide.