«Тюрма на Лонцького»: створення та функціонування (1919–1944 рр.)

Abstract

The article reveals the history of the establishment and operation of the “Prison on Łącki” which begins in 1919–1923. The topicality is aggravated by the fact that at the same time the prison gained political, which remained in the subsequent periods of its operation. Among her prisoners were those who went down in history of the struggle for Ukraine’s independence. The events of September 1939 initiated a new, more tragic, period in the history of the “Prison on Łącki”. After a short adaptation period the Soviet troops began to form a prison system for the “reeducation of bourgeois nationalists”. The most tragic days in its history were the end of June 1941, when the NKVDs was killing the largest number of political prisoners in Galicia. However, the arrival of the Germans did not lead to change in the purpose of the building – “Prison on Łącki” transformed into the investigative prison of the Gestapo.