Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Ginin da ba a yi niyya don amfani da kurkuku ba an tsara shi ne da masanin gine-ginen Poland Ferdynand Liebling (18771942) a matsayin gidan kotu mai amfani da hadadden amfani ("cum" - ofishin haraji don garin Podgórze ("Ger. ", Josefsstadt) kuma an gina shi a cikin 1905 lokacin da yankin ke ƙarƙashin mamayar Austriya. Ba a san ranar da aka kafa wuraren kurkuku a wuraren ba. Podgórze, asalin gari ne daban, an haɗa shi cikin karamar hukumar Cracow ta hanyar shawarar majalisar garin Podgórze a 1915. Littattafan lokacin yaƙi, haɗe da tarihin Tadeusz Pankiewicz, sun nuna cewa har ila ana amfani da kotu a nan a zamanin Nazi
na yakin duniya na biyu, aƙalla a cikin suna (gidan kurkuku shine babban fasalin), yayin da rahotannin 'yan jarida na zamanin kwaminisanci suka ambaci kotun da ke aiki tare da kurkukun da ke harabar gidan a cikin shekarun bayan yakin, suna ba da shawarar canzawa zuwa amfani da kurkuku gaba ɗaya a 1971 lokacin da kotun ta daina aiki. Gidan gidan yarin gidan yarin ya kasance a cikin shekarun bayan yakin wani ofishin Hukumar Kula da Yanki don Binciken Laifukan Nazi (Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich, wata hukumar gwamnati da ta daina aiki yanzu ta shiga cikin IPN wanda ya hada da Kwaminisanci ban da laifukan Nazi).