Seven post-war documentary photographs of the remains of Gęsiówka, i.e. the site of the former military prison at Gęsia and Zamenhofa Streets in Warsaw, which was a prison and concentration camp during the German occupation.
They were taken, as it can be assumed, for publication and scientific purposes by the Bureau of Information and Propaganda (a branch at the municipal level of the Ministry of Information and Propaganda - established in September 1944, at that time called the Propaganda and Information Department of the National City Council of the Capital City of Warsaw). Jan Cybis probably came into possession of these photographs as editor of the ""Głos Plastyków"", a magazine published just after the war, in the period of relative freedom of publishing initiatives (which lasted until mid-1948); he could have received them in 1946, when the magazine was already being created, and from May 1945 to June 1946 the bureau bore the name visible on the stamp (in June 1946, the Bureau of Information and Propaganda of the Capital City of Warsaw and the Bureau of Information and Propaganda for the Warsaw Province were merged, and as a result, the Bureau of Information and Propaganda of the Warsaw Province was established).
The photographs remained in the artist's archive.
They were donated to the POLIN Museum collection by his son, Jacek Cybis.