The Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights in Vilnius, is dedicated to showing artifacts and records from the 50-year period of Soviet occupation of Lithuania.
Former KGB building, now the museum
The former KGB building that hosts the museum
Execution room where prisoners were killed and later buried in mass graves outside Vilnius. Objects found in these mass graves are now on display within the cases located under the glass floor of the room.
Cell with padded walls and a straitjacket, for isolation of prisoners declared mentally unstable
Lithuanian partisans
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Lithuanian partisans were partisans who waged guerrilla warfare in Lithuania against the Soviet Union in 1944–1953. Similar anti-Soviet resistance groups, also known as Forest Brothers and cursed soldiers, fought against Soviet rule in Estonia, Latvia and Poland. An estimated total of 30,000 Lithuanian partisans and their supporters were killed. The Lithuanian partisan war lasted almost for a decade, thus becoming one of the longest partisan wars in Europe.
Lithuanian partisans of the Vytautas military district Tigras (Tiger) team, 1947.
Lithuanian resistance fighters from the Dainava military district.
Partisan commander Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas in 1947
Wall of former KGB headquarters in Vilnius inscribed with names of those tortured and killed in its basement (now Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights).