Exposition on Exile and Resistance Movement at the History Museum of Lithuania Minor
Museum

In the central part of Klaipėda city.

After the Soviets occupied Klaipėda, repressive structures (NKVD, MGB, KGB) settled in the city buildings at S. Nėries St. 2 and 4. People were imprisoned, interrogated and tortured here. In 1945–1953, 8,268 people were imprisoned in the cells in the basements of the house at S. Nėries St. 4 (the so-called internal prison). The KGB used these buildings until the mid-1980s, when they moved to other premises.

In 1992, the Klaipėda Territorial Customs Office was located in the building at S. Nėries g. 4, and in 2014, an exhibition of resistance and exile was opened in its basement. In the museum, visitors can see two surviving authentic cells and a restored interrogator's office. The exhibition introduces the Soviet repressive structures, the partisan war in Western Lithuania, the stories of exile and political prisoners of the Klaipėda region. The unique (compared to other regions of Lithuania) history of the Klaipėda region determined that the history of resistance to the Soviets here also had its own nuances. The improvised interrogator's office aims to convey to visitors the feeling of the oppressive and frightening environment that a person who fell into the hands of repressive structures experienced.