A wooden model of a sailing-boat. Made by the political prisoner V.N. Gaenko as a present for his daughter. Camp Zh.Kh. 385/11 (Iavas settlement Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic), 1967. Photo 19.12.2007.
Typewriter "Mercedes". It was used by the Sisters of the Congregation of the Holy Family and the Congregation of the Holy Eucharist in the 1970s and 1980s for duplicating editions of “The Chronicle of the Lithuanian Catholic Church”. It is kept in the Museum of the History of the Kaunas Diocese (branch...
Typewriter “Erika”. Belonged to Inna Aronovna Shikheeva . In the 1970s and 1980s she used it for typing out “samizdat” documents, including “The Chronicle of Current Events”. Photo 06.10.2004.
Typewriter “Erika” . 1970s - 1980s. It belonged to the priest Sigitas Tamkevičius and was used for the preparation and duplicating of editions of “The Chronicle of the Lithuanian Catholic Church”. The typewriter was adapted for the rapid changing of the script mechanism . After the arrest of S. Tamkevičius...
A wheel from a wheelbarrow with a single wheel, used by prisoners during the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal (1931-1933). It was raised from the bottom of the canal in the area of Locks Nos. 10 and 11 in 2004, during work on the temporary draining of part of the canal for repairs and reconstruction...
A female prisoner’s dress. Taishet, Camp 9 (Irkutsk Province). 1954. The dress belonged to the teacher Rūtai Murtaité, a political prisoner. It is kept in the Museum of Exile and the Resistance (Kaunas, Lithuanian Republic)
A “ksiva” (secret note) containing a chronicle for 1985 of camp VS 389/36, compiled by Rostislav Borisovich Evdokimov (village of Kuchino in the Chusovskii region of Perm oblast’), 1985. Photo 06.10.2004.
“Severnyi gorniak” [“Northern Miner”] newspaper . Press organ of the Department for Culture and Education of the NKVD UkhtPechLag, settlement Chib’iu. No 26 (211) from 7 May 1935, special edition. Page 1. (Photo 21.02.2007.
A home-made album for keeping records. End of the 1940s. Given to I. Kaziskiene, a political prisoner, by another political prisoner, Bishop Pranas Ramanauskas (1893-1962) in one of the Inta Camps. It is kept in the Palanga Museum of Resistance and Exile (Palanga, Lithuanian Republic). (Photo December...
Album (front cover). First half of the 1950s. It was made by Piatras-Kazis Ilgunas (born 1918), a political prisoner in the UkhtIzhemLag (Komi ASSR) as a gift for Aleksandra Bogusaite. Museum of Resistance and Deportation (Druskininkai, Lithuanian Republic). Photo 24.08.2008
Album for poetry. Amderma, 1936. Made by a prisoner, the topographer Ivan Nikolaevich Akulov (1906-1938) as a present for Anna Gal’perina. Research and Information Centre "Memorial", St Petersburg.
