Exposition on Exile and Resistance Movement at the History Museum of Lithuania Minor
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The exposition is located in the central part of Klaipėda.
After the Soviet occupation, the repressive structures (NKGB, KGB) in Klaipėda were located in the city buildings at 2 and 4 S. Nėries Street. People were imprisoned, interrogated and tortured here. Between 1945 and 1953, 8,268 people were imprisoned in the basement cells (the so-called inner prison) of the 4th house at S. Nėries Street. The KGB used these buildings until the mid-1990s when it moved to other premises.
In 1992, the building at 4 S. Nėries Street housed the Klaipėda Territorial Customs Office, and in 2014, an Exposition on Exile and Resistance Movement was opened in the basement
of the building. Visitors can see two authentic cells and a restored interrogation room. The exposition introduces the visitor to the Soviet repressive structures, the partisan war in Western Lithuania, the procedure of deportations carried out in Klaipėda region, and the stories of political prisoners. The peculiar history of the Klaipėda region (compared to other regions of Lithuania) determined the fact that the anti-Soviet movement also had its own peculiarities. In an improvised interrogation room, visitors are given the opportunity to experience the oppressive and terrifying environment that a person who’d fallen into the hands of repressive structures had to endure.