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The Lontsky Street Prison Memorial Museum: An Example of Postcommunist Holocaust Negationism
Author(s): Himka, John-Paul
Editor(s): Karlsson, Klas-Göran; Stenfeldt, Johan; Zander, Ulf
Date: 2015
Topics: Holocaust: Distortion, Holocaust: Commemoration, Communism, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Memorials (other than Holocaust memorials)
Abstract: The Lontsky Street prison museum in Lviv was opened to the public in 2009 and is one of the fruits of the nationalist historical politics of the presidency of Viktor Iushchenko (2005-10). Its full title is The National Museum-Memorial of the Victims of the Occupying Regimes “Prison on Lontsky Street.” It is devoted to the history of the repressions conducted here by the Soviet authorities (1939-41, 1944-91) and by the German authorities (1941-44). The presentation is extremely one-sided. Its chief focus is on the bloody events of June 1941, when the NKVD massacred thousands of political prisoners in Lviv’s three main prisons. It passes over in silence the bloody pogrom that transpired at these same three sites on 1 July 1941, in which the chief perpetrators were militiamen of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). Members of OUN do figure prominently in the exhibition halls, but only as victims of both the Nazi and communist regimes.