In 1908-1909, a gendarmerie station was built on the site according to a standard design. The main building housed the police station and a service apartment, an outbuilding in the yard and a small storage room with a cellar in which gardening tools were kept and, for a time, service dogs were kept. In the post-war period, the building housed the headquarters of the NKVD Priekule division, where resistance fighters arrested in the surrounding area were interrogated and tortured in the basement. The farm building housed the arrested prisoners, and the basement cellar was used to store the bodies of the martyrs, which were buried a few days later in the garden in the depths of the plot, or transported and dumped in the peat bog in the village of Druki.
During the Soviet era, the main building housed the Priekule Executive Committee, and in 2006 the Priekule Museum of the History of the Freedom Struggle and Exile was established on the farm. It contains a lot of valuable material about the struggles of the resistance fighters of the Kęstutis Brigade of the Butigeidis Brigade in Žemaitija and Klaipėda Region. The exposition ""Exile and Resistance in Klaipėda District"" provides visitors with a comprehensive insight into the partisan movement, mass deportations and imprisonments. In the museum's outdoor exposition, you will experience authentic experiences by visiting the exile wagon and the partisan bunker.
Contact:
+370 696 26175
tremties@gargzdumuziejus.lt
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