Varniai concentration camp
Main building of the concentration camp (present-day Samogitian Diocese Museum) | |
Varniai concentration camp Location of the Varniai concentration camp | |
| Coordinates | 55°44′38″N 22°22′21″E / 55.74389°N 22.37250°E |
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| Status | Closed |
| Security class | Internment camp |
| Capacity | 300 |
| Population | 168 (as of October 1928) |
| Opened | 19 January 1927 |
| Closed | 30 October 1931 |
| Warden | Captain Kostas Rudaitis |
| City | Varniai |
| Country | Lithuania |
| Notable prisoners | |
| Butkų Juzė, Vladas Niunka, Mečislovas Gedvilas, Andrius Bulota | |
Varniai concentration camp was an internment camp in Varniai, Lithuania. It was created a month after the coup d'état of December 1926 to house political prisoners, mostly members of the outlawed Communist Party of Lithuania. In total, more than 1,000 people passed through the camp before it was closed in 1931 due to financial difficulties brought by the Great Depression. Later, the authoritarian regime of Antanas Smetona operated two other internment camps, one in Dimitravas in 1936 and another in Pabradė in 1939.