Museum Of The Liberation Of Rome, Italy Editorial Photo

Cell 2 in the second floor of the the Museum of the Liberation of Rome in Via Tasso 145 close to the basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome, Italy. Cell 2 was used for solitary confinement. This, and one on the upper floor, was not covered with wallpaper and displays evidence of messages scratched in the plaster by the prisoners. The building housing the museum was used by the SS to torture members of the Italian Resistance in the first half of 1944. Under Kappler the apartments located on three floors were transformed into a prison, with the rooms being turned into cells. In January 1944 all windows were walled up to facilitate imprisonment, interrogations and torture of some of the most important figures of the Italian resistance, with an estimated 2000 people passing through the building. Following donation of the apartments occupied by the SS to the Italian State in 1950 the museum was established to record the period of German occupation and Rome`s subsequent liberation in 1957.