Lukiškės Prison
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Lukiškės Prison is a former prison in the center of Vilnius, Lithuania, near the Lukiškės Square and was operational from 1837 until 2019.
Lukiškės Prison
Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church, part of the Lukiškės Prison complex
Prison during the interwar period
NKVD prisoner massacres
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The NKVD prisoner massacres were a series of mass executions of political prisoners carried out by the NKVD, the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union, across Eastern Europe,
Lukiškės Prison
…notably held in the prison after his arrest in September 1940. In June 1941, during the German invasion, the NKVD shot prisoners at Lukiškės Prison (see NKVD prisoner massacres). The prison became more notorious during the Nazi occupation of Lithuania, when it was used by the Gestapo and Lithuanian Saugumas as a holding cell…
Victims of Soviet NKVD in Lviv, June 1941
Victims of NKVD in Tartu, Estonia, July 1941
Entrance to memorial in Piatykhatky
Katyn-Kharkiv memorial