THE MUSEUM OF GENOCIDE
VICTIMS. COLLECTIONS.
Armed
anti-Soviet resistance
(Documents,
objects, photographs, literature)
This collection has been
started to form just after the foundation of the museum on the base of
historic documents found in the central KGB building in Vilnius. It
consists of partisans' documents, photographs, publications that were
confiscated by MGB from partisans or their supporters and not included
into their criminal cases as exhibits. Lately, this collection was
supplemented with values presented by people or organisations, or found
during the expeditions. The collection is still under inventory. Persons
who signed by their pseudonyms and unknown partisans should be identified.
Unarmed
anti-Soviet resistance
(Biographies, photographs,
publications)
The material about the
unarmed resistance possessed by the museum is still not abundant; it is
gradually supplemented
and ordered. The base of it was formed from the material seized by the KGB
during the Soviet period from the dissidents and citizens sympathising
with them: books, underground publications, documents.
Almost all issues of "Chronicle of the Lithuanian Catholic
Church" are stored in set, as well as the underground magazines and
newspapers "Ausra", "Vytis", "Alma Mater",
"Laisves sauklys", "Dievas ir Tevyne", "Tautos
kelias", etc. In resent years, interesting photos reflecting the
dissident movement and the members of this movement were acquired. The
contacts entered in with the former dissidents give us hope that the
collection will be supplemented by valuable and interesting material.
Lithuanian
people in prisons and deportation
(Documents, objects,
photographs)
This
collection consists of the material brought to the museum by people
themselves or collected during the expeditions. It contains the
photographs, also some original documents and objects. This group of the
said collection is supplemented permanently. People who had kept their or
their relatives' things reminding of deportation or prison, brought those
things to the museum lately. This is the only way to restore them and to
keep them properly.
Activity
of the Soviet repressive institutions
(Documents, literature, video
and audio records)
This collection contains
objects found in the former KGB building in 1992. Valuable exhibits were
found at the former museum of the "Chekist Fame", Operative
technical department, special library, and photo laboratory. The said
collection is still supplemented: some interesting exhibits were acquired
from Lithuanian Special Archive, private persons, and shops of
antiquities.
Photo from Museum’s collection
