Historic sites

Martyrology Museum in Żabikowo

On the edge of Luboń near Poznań, at 2 Niezłomnych Street, stands the Martyrology Museum in Żabikowo, commemorating the victims of the German camp that operated in 1943–1945 on the site of a former brickyard. Its official name was the Security Police Prison and Educational Labour Camp Poznań-Junikowo (German: Posen-Lenzingen).

The camp of "bloody revenge"

From April 1943 the camp continued the function of the liquidated Fort VII and was subordinated to the Poznań Gestapo. About 40,000 prisoners passed through it: the Polish intelligentsia, members of the underground, Soviet prisoners of war, German communists, Jehovah's Witnesses and citizens of other countries. On average about 2,000 people were held here, and conditions did not differ from concentration camps — the camp was surrounded by a double fence of electrified wire and guard towers. In June 1944 the leadership group of the Szare Szeregi (Grey Ranks) was executed here. On the night of 20–21 January 1945 the evacuation began: of the 500 people driven west to Sachsenhausen only 208 arrived, and about 80 sick prisoners were burned alive in a barrack set on fire.

The museum and the monument

The museum has operated since 1979 and is organised by the local government of the Wielkopolska province; since 2013 its branch has been the Museum of the Former German Kulmhof Death Camp in Chełmno nad Nerem, and since 2025 also the Museum of the Martyrdom of Wielkopolska Residents – Fort VII in Poznań. On the grounds stands the "Never Again War" monument by Józef Gosławski.