Miejsce ratunku, miejsce ukrycia zbrodni. Wileńskie Tuskulany po 1939 roku

ENThe area where the Tuskulėnai Memorial Park Complex is currently located is a place that symbolically reflects the history of Vilnius and Lithuania from the 16th century to the present. A particularly dramatic period in the history of this place occurred in the mid-20th century. During the war, this place became a shelter for Jews fleeing the Holocaust, and after the Red Army entered Vilnius in 1944, the occupiers turned the manor park into a place of mass burials. The article presents the fate of two Polish families: Antonowicz and Walicki, to whom the estate belonged during World War II, and the circumstances of their departure from Vilnius. The later fate of this place and the mechanism of carrying out the death penalty in Lithuania in the years 1944-1947 were also presented, using the example of the cases of Poles who were among the victims buried in Tuskulėnai. The period of revealing the truth about mass graves and the commemoration of the victims were also discussed. Keywords: Tuskulėnai Manor, Vilnius, World War II, death penalty, mass graves, Righteous, deportations, exhumations, war tribunals.