NKVD-MVDV-MGB-KGB Kretinga Subdistrict Headquarters with Arrest Ward
Memorial site

Built in 1935, the house housed an apartment, a hotel and a restaurant, but in 1940 the house was nationalized. In 1944 it was transferred to the Kretinga County Subdistrict of the NKVD, and from 1953 it became the headquarters of the Kretinga County Subdistricts of the KGB and the militia with a detention center. In the post-war years, lists of Kretinga County residents selected for deportation to the depths of Russia were compiled in this building, and fighters for Lithuanian freedom and their contacts and supporters were imprisoned, interrogated and tortured. During the torture, the NKVD officers would start the car engine so that the noise it emitted would drown out the screams of the tortured people. In the post-war years, the people of Kretinga nicknamed this building the “Fur Workshop”. The bodies of killed partisans brought from the Kretinga area were dumped near the building and in its yard.