Lukiškės Prison
The Lukiškės Prison ( lit. Lukiškių kalėjimas , offic. Lukiškių tardymo izoliatorius-kalėjimas ; LTIK ) is a prison in the center of Vilnius , Lithuania , not far from Lukiškės Square . In 2007 there were about 1,000 prisoners and about 250 prison employees.
history
The prison building was inaugurated in 1904. The project author was architect G. Trambickis. The technical project was designed by the engineer K. Kelčevskis. In 1905 the St. Mikolaj Orthodox Church was built.
In June 1941, during the German invasion of the Soviet Union , prisoners were by here NKVD shot .
During the subsequent National Socialist occupation of Lithuania, thousands of Jews from the Vilna ghetto and Poles were held here by the Gestapo and the Lithuanian security police "Saugmas". Most of them were shot in the forest of Ponary . When the prison was retaken by Soviet troops in 1944, the prison was returned to the NKVD, who held thousands of Polish activists and members of the Polish Home Army here .
Known prisoners
- Viktoras Ašmenskas (1912–2016), Lithuanian sports pilot
- Menachem Begin (1913–1992), Israeli Prime Minister
- Mykolas Biržiška (1882–1962), Lithuanian lawyer and politician, member of the Seimas, professor and rector of the Vilniaus universitetas
- Bertrand Cantat , French singer
- Petras Gražulis (* 1958), Lithuanian politician, Seimas member
- Petras Klimas (1891–1969), Lithuanian lawyer and politician, minister and deputy minister, diplomat (ambassador)
- Sonia Madejsker (1914–1944), Jewish partisan
- Antanas Terleckas (* 1928), Lithuanian dissident
Individual evidence
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Coordinates: 54 ° 41 ′ 29 ″ N , 25 ° 15 ′ 59 ″ E