Standing cell

The Armenian hosiery-manufacturer and musician Samuel Hovannes Zorian was arrested in 1895 by Ottoman authorities for being a political activist.

Zorian was then sent back to the "police room" where he was confined for a further week and was only sustained on a diet of bread and water, with no medical attention given to him during that period.

A prisoner surnamed Neumann was held there for 192 hours (eight full days) and was allegedly driven mad as a result of his confinement.

The number of prisoners in Dachau concentration camp increased dramatically in the last years of the Second World War.

[note 1] There was a small hatch on top for air, and a narrow door with an iron bar bolted to the cell.

[5]According to Johannes Neuhäusler [de], an inmate in the standing cell received a single piece of bread in three days.

[note 2] On the fourth day, the prisoner was removed from the standing cell, given a normal camp meal ration and allowed to sleep on a wooden cot.

[9] According to Soviet defector Aleksandr Mikhailovich Orlov, the standing cell, called a kishka (Russian for "intestine"),[10] was used as part of the Stalinist purges of the 1930s.