page_title: Museum of the Liberation of Rome
section_title: The museum
hierarchical_section_title: Museum of the Liberation of Rome / The museum
caption_attribution_description: English: This kitchen was turned into a cell -- the appliances, apart from the sink, were taken out, and the window was bricked up by the SS. A prisoner, Col. Montezemolo, was kept here in pitch blackness for three months and brutally tortured before being dragged, more dead than alive, to the Ardeatine Caves for the group massacre. The window has been partially unbricked: the sign says "window walled up by the SS". I find it quite creepy that the stove hood is still there, a faint ghost of the room's original purpose, something familiar and even reassuring which underscores the horror of the subsequent use of the room.
context_page_description: The Museum of the Liberation of Rome is located in an apartment building at Via Tasso 145, Rome, close to the basilica of St. John Lateran. It records the period of German occupation of Rome in the Second World War and its subsequent liberation. The building housing the museum was used by the SS to torture members of the Italian Resistance in the first half of 1944.
context_section_description: The museum occupies three floors. In addition to recording the torture that took place on the site, it details the persecution of Rome's Jews, with copies of newspaper reports and posters imposing bans and anti-Jewish orders. It also covers the underground struggle, exhibiting manifestos and handbills of the resistance. It provides information about those imprisoned in Via Tasso and pays particular attention to the Ardeatine Massacre when some of the 335 victims were taken from the prisons of Via Tasso. In some of the cells writings in pencil on the plaster and other graffiti provide touching messages of life and freedom, often written by prisoners nearing death.
caption: Via Tasso 145, Rome. The kitchen was converted into a cell by the SS.
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