Piotr Śmietański

Piotr Śmietański
Piotr Śmietański
Born(1899-06-27)27 June 1899
Zawady, Poland
Died23 February 1950(1950-02-23) (aged 50)
CitizenshipPolish
OccupationExecutioner
Known forservice in Ministry of Public Security

Piotr Śmietański (27 June 1899 – 23 February 1950) was a Polish non-commissioned officer and communist functionary in the Ministry of Public Security and executioner at Mokotów Prison.

Śmietański was stationed at the Mokotów Prison in the Warsaw borough of Mokotów (Polish: Więzienie mokotowskie) known also as Rakowiecka Prison located at 37 Rakowiecka Street. From World War II until the collapse of the Eastern Bloc in 1989, it was a place of detention, torture and execution of the Polish anti-communist opposition.