Hotel Polski ( lit . Polish Hotel ) , opened in 1808 , was a hotel in Śródmieście , Warsaw , Poland , at 29 Długa street . In 1943 , in the mop up operation following the liquidation of Warsaw Ghetto , the hotel was used by Germans as bait for Jews hiding in Warsaw . There the German agents and their Jewish collaborators pretended Jews could buy foreign passports and other documents , and then as foreign citizens , leave territories occupied by Nazi Germany . Approximately 2,500 Jews fell for this trap , with most subsequently arrested , moved to Nazi concentration camps , and perishing in The Holocaust . This case is known as " Hotel Polski Affair " . In 1944 during the Warsaw Uprising the building housed a Polish insurgent stronghold called the " Holy Mother Redout " , named after a painting located there . The building was heavily damaged during the fighting and re-purposed following the war . In 1965 the building was declared an object of cultural heritage and inscribed in the Polish heritage object registry . A commemoration plaque was unveiled at the building in 2013
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