Brygidki
Location | Lviv, Ukraine |
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Coordinates | 49°50′36″N 24°1′19″E / 49.84333°N 24.02194°E |
Status | operating |
Security class | male |
Opened | 1784 |
Brygidki (
Bridgettine nunnery in Lviv
, Ukraine.
History
The monastery was founded in 1614 at the behest of Anna Fastkowska and Anna Poradowska for girls from noble families. After the
secularise the convent. In 1784 the Brygidki building was turned into a prison, where death sentences would be carried out on a regular basis until the 1980s.[1]
Taken over by the
Nazi German
invasion. Approximately 7,000 prisoners - primarily Poles and Ukrainians - died in Lviv in that event.
During the German occupation, mass murders of Polish, Jewish and Ukrainian civilians occurred in Brygidki.[2] It was the site of the murder of Prof. Kazimierz Bartel during the Massacre of Lwów professors.
The prison courtyard still contains a Baroque chapel from the former convent. There are plans to shut down the infamous prison or to move it out of the city.
Notable prisoners
- Omelian Pleshkewycz(1919)
- Naftali Botwin (1925) - executed by Polish authorities
- Kazimierz Bartel (1941) - murdered by Nazi German authorities
- Mykola Radeĭko - a leader of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army
References
- ^ ASIF MASIMOV (November 18, 2021). "Бригидки: тюрьма в центре Львова" (in Russian). masimovasif.net. Retrieved November 6, 2022.
- ^ Игорь Деревьяный (September 25, 2012). "Бригидки: тюрьма в центре Львова" (in Russian). argumentua.com. Retrieved November 6, 2022.