The Nazi German Gestapo camp was set up in occupied Poland during World War II, as part of the Polish extermination program known as the German AB-Aktion in Poland, Ethnic cleansing of Zamojszczyzna by Nazi Germany....[1] The rotunda was built between 1825 and 1831 in accordance with the design of General Jean-Baptiste Mallet de Grandville as part of the fortifications of the Zamość Fortress.

During Generalplan Ost and the Ethnic cleansing of Zamojszczyzna by Nazi Germany, German forces resettled 297 villages, including roughly 110,000 Polish people, with 16,000 being sent to Majdanek concentration camp, and 2,000 to KL Auschwitz-Birkenau.

[3] The gate which leads to the yard has the original doors with an inscription in German which reads: The temporary camp for the prisoners of Security Police.

[4] A stone plaque In the center of the courtyard commemorates the site of the cremation of human bodies.

Prisoners of Rotunda included Dr Zygmunt Klukowski,[6] blessed Stanisław Kostka Starowieyski, 16 year-old schoolgirl scout Grażyna Kierszniewska, 17 year-old schoolgirl Danuta Sztarejko, Celina Sztarejko, count Aleksander Szeptycki, Michał Nowacki (Vice Mayor of Zamość), Wacław Bajkowski (president of Lublin), colonel Zdzisław Maćkowski (Home Army Soldier), his sons Zdzisław and Jan, his wife Pelagia Maćkowska, Michał Wazowski (Mayor of Zamość), priest Antoni Gomółka (chaplain of scouts), farmer Władysław Szala, his 19-year-old son Jan Szala, and notary Henryk Rosiński.