On 17 July 2010, nineteen-year-old Iwona Wieczorek left a Sopot nightclub and walked towards Gdańsk. A final CCTV recording near a beach entrance became the fixed point in a long search. These two places follow documented evidence; they do not reconstruct what happened after she left the camera’s view.
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Night of 16–17 July 2010
Bohaterów Monte Cassino 53, Sopot, Poland
Iwona spent the evening at Dream Club, then located in Sopot’s Krzywy Domek. The contemporary missing-person appeal places her departure at about 3 a.m. on 17 July. She began walking back towards Gdańsk. The pin identifies the building that housed the club. Its striking curved facade is a landmark in its own right; it is not evidence of anything that happened later that night.
17 July 2010, 4:12 a.m.
Beach entrance 63, Jantarowa, Gdańsk, Poland
CCTV recorded Iwona near beach entrance 63 at 4:12 a.m. This is the last recorded location identified in the contemporary appeal. The pin marks the entrance, not an established place of abduction or death. A Warsaw Police appeal dated 17 January 2026 confirmed that the search was continuing. Later leads do not establish her movements beyond this point.
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