Exhuming the dead (in Lontski prison, corner Iryna Kalynets street/Stepan Bandera street)
Photograph Details
Subject
Shortly after the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Soviet secret police, the NKVD, executed thousands of political prisoners in Lviv's prisons during a hasty retreat. An estimated 1,700 people were murdered in Lontsky Prison alone. After the German Wehrmacht invaded, mass graves in the prison courtyard were opened. Jewish men were forced to exhume bodies from the prisons.
Subject Place
City
Lviv - Lemberg - Leopolis - Lwów - Léopol - Львів
Country
Ukraine
Region
Eastern Europe
Continent
Europe
Street
Leona Sapiehy Street - Stalina - Stepan Bandera Street
