Airbnb listing faces backlash over decision to pull out Stranger things filming location Lukiškių prison to the hotel on the theme of the popular series. However, Netflix is not affiliated with the project and has asked to close the list.
Before it became the backdrop for Hopper’s (David Harbour) brutal political prisoner in Russia, the Lithuanian prison had more than a century of sordid history as an operational facility for everyone from criminals to actual political prisoners. However, Lukiški Prison is perhaps best known as a Nazi-run holding cell and concentration camp that housed thousands of Jews, Poles and Soviets during World War II. There, they were brutally tortured and killed in groups, and they had to survive in horrible conditions every day. Prisoners were routinely mistreated and abused as they were forced to live in cramped and filthy conditions with minimal food, light or social interaction.
Even after the end of World War II, the prison remained a place where prisoners were regularly subjected to physical and psychological torture and executed by public hanging until the 1960s. Death sentences were also carried out in firing squads, right next to occupied cells, where other prisoners could hear the suffering of their fellow prisoners, until the end of the 1990s, when the death penalty was finally abolished in Lithuania.
From 1904 to 2019, the Lukiški prison in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, operated at full capacity. After the closure, the Vilnius Tourism Board tried to change the space and hopes to do so, hoping for success. stranger things and turn it into a themed, fully operational hotel catering to fans of the Netflix Original series.
Unsurprisingly, this rebranding effort has met with opposition from Jewish and mental health advocacy groups, who have launched petitions to stop the rebranding effort in order to avoid shaming Holocaust victims and survivors, as well as others who have lived through the Holocaust, and deletion. forced to suffer the horrors of Lukiškės prison.
Currently one of the main ones petitions The Jewish-Rroma Against Bigotry-led organization has collected more than 57,000 of its target of 75,000 signatures.
An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that Netflix was involved in the project.
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