Description of the attraction
The memorial to the victims of the occupation regimes "Prison on Lontskogo" - is one of the sights of the city of Lviv, located on Karl Bryullov street. The memorial to the victims of the occupation regimes was opened in a room in which the punitive bodies of various authorities were located for a very long time. The building was erected for the Austrian gendarmerie at the end of the 19th century, at the intersection of the current Bandera and Copernicus streets. After that, the premises were equipped with prisons for the German, Polish and Soviet authorities.
In 1941, the largest number of political prisoners throughout Western Ukraine was killed in this place, and the Gestapo investigative prison was also located here. In 1944-1991. the building housed the investigation department and the pre-trial detention center of the NKVD, and in 1991-2009. - Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.
In 2009, with the help of the Security Service of Ukraine and the Center for Research on the Liberation Movement, the prison was turned into a museum. The museum reproduces the realistic prison environment of the past.
The memorial to the victims of the occupation regimes can now be visited every Thursday. Anyone can visit the investigator's office, a unique darkroom, a solitary cell and a death row. Here, from rare photographs and films, you can learn the whole truth about the events of the summer of 1941. Also, various expositions and recently declassified "execution lists", archival files on some of the most famous prisoners are presented to your attention. For several decades, “Prison on Lontskogo Street” was not just a prison, but also a dungeon behind which terrible crimes against humanity were committed. Excursions around the memorial to the victims of the occupation regimes "Prisons on Lontskoy" are conducted by the staff of the Center by appointment.
