Piotr Śmietański

Who was Piotr Śmietański?

Staff Sergeant Piotr Śmietański, was one of the main executioners in Stalinist Poland, employed by the communist secret police Urząd Bezpieczeństwa.

Śmietański was stationed at the Mokotów Prison in the Warsaw borough of Mokotów known also as Rakowiecka Prison located at 37 Rakowiecka Street. From World War II until the collapse of the Eastern Bloc in 1989, Mokotów Prison – where Śmietański conducted his deeds – was a place of detention, torture and execution of the Polish anti-communist opposition.