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. Author was project architect G. Trambickis. The technical project designed engineer K. Kelčevskis. In 1905 they built the Orthodox St. Mikolaj Church.
In June 1941, during the German invasion of the Soviet Union, where prisoners were shot by the NKVD.
In the following the Nazi occupation of Lithuania, thousands of Jews from the ghetto of Vilnius and Poland were imprisoned by the Gestapo and the Lithuanian Security Police " Saugmas ". Most of them were shot in the forest of Ponar. In the reconquest by Soviet troops in 1944, the prison was returned to the NKVD, who had imprisoned here thousands of Polish activists and members of the Polish Home Army.
Known prisoners
- Menachem Begin, former Israeli Prime Minister
- Bertrand Cantat, the French singer