Prison on Lonskogo Street

The National Museum-Memorial to the Victims of Occupation “Prison on Lonskogo Street” has a small, but growing, archival collection. A detention facility used by the Polish police, the Nazi and Soviet occupational regimes, and lastly the KGB, this museum-memorial has a storied past. The building was used by regional state security services (SBU) as a prison until 1996. After the local community caught wind of a plan to allow developers to build on the site in 2006, activists mobilized to transform the prison into a site commemorating the thousands of prisoners executed by the NKVD in 1941 as the Red Army fled from advancing Nazi forces, and those incarcerated here in the decades that followed.Curators have amassed 2,000 items since the museum’s opening in 2009. In addition to World War II propaganda from Nazi and Soviet forces, it holds the personal belongings of political prisoners and detainees—letters, personal documents, and samizdat publications used to prosecute dissidents, artists, and human rights activists in Lviv and its surrounding environs in the 1960s and 1970s. The latter is an ad hoc collection of about 50 items described in the rest of this entry, which includes embroidery, rosaries made out of bread, and other materials created by prisoners serving out lengthy sentences in Siberian labour camps under Brezhnev. Situated within the larger context of the museum-memorial’s holdings, these materials about Lviv’s dissidents is important for understanding the Soviet Union’s treatment of its most intransigent opponents well into the Brezhnev era.

国家博物馆-纪念占领受害者之“隆斯科戈街监狱”纪念馆拥有一座虽小却日益壮大的档案藏品。这座监狱曾由波兰警察、纳粹和苏联占领政权以及最后的克格勃使用，博物馆-纪念馆拥有一段充满传奇的历史。该建筑自1996年之前被区域国家安全服务局（SBU）用作监狱。2006年，当地社区得知有人计划在该地开发建设后，活动家们动员起来，将这座监狱转变为纪念1941年红军在纳粹军队推进时逃亡期间被内务人民委员部（NKVD）处决的数千名囚犯，以及在此后几十年中关押于此的人们的纪念场所。自2009年博物馆开放以来，馆长们已收集了2,000件物品。除了纳粹和苏联军队在第二次世界大战期间的宣传材料外，还收藏了政治犯和被拘留者的个人物品——信件、个人文件和用于起诉1960年代和1970年代利沃夫及其周边地区异见分子、艺术家和人权活动分子的地下出版物。后者是一个约50件物品的临时收藏，以下将详细描述这些物品，包括刺绣、用面包制成的念珠和其他材料，这些材料是由在勃列日涅夫时期的西伯利亚劳改营服长刑的囚犯制作的。这些关于利沃夫异见分子的材料，在理解勃列日涅夫时代苏联对其最顽抗的对手的对待方面，处于博物馆-纪念馆藏品的大背景之中，具有重要价值。