The cells
Narrow and windowless, as left.
Jonas Rogowski — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Nenea hartia — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Edgars Košovojs — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Pitadzi — CC BY-SA 4.0
Not for the young: the content is harsh (arrest, torture, execution) and the space closed and narrow; sixteen and over, with preparation.
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Latvia's most feared address: the Corner House, an elegant Art Nouveau building of 1912 at the crossing of Brīvības and Stabu streets, became in 1940 the headquarters of the Soviet secret police, later the KGB — and through its door thousands of Latvians were taken for interrogation, imprisonment and deportation to Siberia. It opened to the public in 2014 and was left as it stood: narrow windowless cells, interrogation rooms, corridors, an inner execution yard and the hidden room of prisoners' messages. The guided tour (English at set times) explains the machinery: informing, forced recruitment, the files — and the stories of those who passed through. It is run today as part of the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia, which documents three successive occupations (Soviet 1940, Nazi 1941, Soviet 1944-1991). A harsh visit, but the truest way to understand the Baltics and why independence means what it means here.
Narrow and windowless, as left.
Where sentences were carried out.
Brīvības iela 61, Riga