Prison on Łącki Street

The National Museum-Memorial of Victims of the Occupation Regimes, or the Prison on Łącki (Street) is a former detention center that throughout the 20th century was primarily used as a political prison of the Polish, Soviet and Nazi regimes.nThe museum houses a main office of the Center for Research of Liberation Movement. The building complex was built in 1889-1890. It is built in a Neo-Renaissance style and originally was designed for Austro-Hungarian Gendarmerie’s main office in the city. nThe prison portion housed the Fourth Department of the State Police Main Commandant’s Office, one duty of which included a fight against “anti-government” organizations such as Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, Communist Party of Western Ukraine and others. Unofficially the prison was intended for political prisoners. In 1935 the investigating department of police were quartered in the building, while the prison was turned into a detention center