Lithuania
Execution Chamber
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The execution cell in the basement of the building. More than 1,000 people were executed here between 1944 and the early 1960s. Most of them were buried in a mass grave in Tuskulėnai on the outskirts of Vilnius. See below. Findings from the mass graves of executed people such as glasses, rings, buttons, shoes etc. are exhibited under the glass floor that protects the original floor.
The small window near the ceiling was used at night (to hide what was happening) to push bodies out to a waiting truck for disposal.
