The number-badge with the personal number of the prisoner (“AK-709”) belonged to Ida Moiseevna Nappelbaum (1900-1992), a prisoner in the OzerLag (Taishet town, Irkutsk oblast’) at the beginning of the 1950s. After her release in 1954 I.M. Nappelbaum kept the badge as a reminder of her time in prison....

A photograph of a barrack-block of Section No.3 of Camp Division No.4 in the BelbaltLag (White Sea-Baltic Canal Camp) taken between 1936 and 1938 in Segezha Settlement in the Medvezhegorsk Region of the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. A photographic record of the construction of the...

Bedspread with lace insets. 1950s. Made by Elena lginaite-Miežetienė in exile in Krasnoyarsk Krai. It is kept in the Priekule Museum of Exile and the Struggle for Freedom (Priekule, Lithuanian Republic). Given to the Museum by Elena lginaite-Miežetienė in 2006 (Photo 2010).

A bench from the house of the special settler family Tserr, who were exiled to the workers’ settlement of Iurga, in Kemerovo oblast’. It was made in Iurga in the 1940s or 1950s. In 2000 Iosif Tserr (born 1939) gave it to the Iurga Municipal Local History Museum, where it became part of the permanent...

A birth certificate for a child of prisoner M.S.Shutova. Dated 12.01.1942, signed by the head of maternity home No.2, Tomsk. Mariya Sergeyevna Shutova (1905-1999) gave birth to a daughter while in Tomsk transit prison on 02.01.1942. She was then transferred to the Iaia division of the Administration...

A rod for cleaning the openings of a blacksmith’s forge, used by prisoners of the BelBaltLag (White Sea – Baltic Camp) during the construction of the White Sea - Baltic Canal (1931-1933). Found in 2004 on the bed of the canal in the area of locks 10 and 11, during construction and repair work. It...

Blanket. RechLag, Pit No.8 (Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic). Late 1940s- early 1950s. It belonged to the political prisoner P. Tamošiūnas. It is kept in the Museum of Exile and Resistance (Kaunas, Lithuanian Republic).

A board from a camp barrack of the SibLag, with the inscription “Zdes’ sidel sledstvie 6 m Mel’chakov Petr” [“Here was imprisoned investigation 6 months Petr Mel’chakov”]. It was found by an inhabitant of the Miliutino Settlement, in Iurga Region, Kemerovo oblast’, during earthworks. It is kept in the...

Booklet accompanying the “Maternal Glory” Medal, Class III, awarded to Bronislava Rudgalvienė. 16.10.1956, Buryat-Mongol ASSR. B. Rudgalvienė had been deported from Lithuania and was living as a special settler in the settlement of Novoil’insk in the Zaigraevo Region of the Buryat-Mongol ASSR. The booklet...

Bowl. Once owned by the family of Liucijа Šimkienė, who was deported to the Buryat-Mongol ASSR on 22.05.1948. Kept in the Priekule Museum of Exile and the Struggle for Freedom (Priekule, Lithuania). (Photo: December 2010.)

Box. The work of Political Prisoner Vladas Bure. Arkhangel’sk. 1956. It is kept in the Museum of Exile and Resistance (Kaunas, Lithuanian Republic).

Box decorated with cockle shells. 1950s. It belonged to Vida Kubiliene in exile in Tomsk oblast'. It is kept in the Panavezys Local History Museum (Panavezhis, Lithuanian Republic). It was given to the Museum by V. Kubiliene in 1996 (Photograph December, 2011).

Box made out of strips of micah. It was made by an unknown political prisoner in one of the women’s camps in Taishet. It is kept in the Priekule Museum of Exile and the Struggle for Freedom (Priekule, Lithuanian Republic). It was given to the Museum in 2010 by Petronele Aksamitauskaite, a former political...

A factory-made wooden box. 1956. It belonged to political prisoner Gabriel’ Milasius (1907-1998), who was in exile in Irkutsk in 1957. There are several words in Lithuanian written inside the lid, and also the place – Irkutsk and the date (14th January, 1957). It is kept in the Palanga Museum of Resistance...

A carved wooden box. First half of the 1950s. It was made by Piatras-Kazis Ilgunas (born 1918), a political prisoner in UkhtIzhemLag (Komi ASSR) as a present for another political prisoner Aleksandra Bogusaite (1915-1986), who was in exile in Spassk Settlement, Karaganda oblast'. Symbols of Lithuanian...