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>Massacres in Lviv's prisons usually followed a similar pattern. NKVD and NKGB officers called prisoners from their cells, then individually or in small groups led them to the prison basements and killed them there. Individual and mass executions also took place in the prison yards. In the final hours before the German troops entered the city, NKVD officers killed prisoners directly in their cells, opening fire through the bars or throwing grenades into the overcrowded rooms. The bodies were buried in graves dug on the prison grounds or left in cells and basements (some of which were bricked up).
>Executions were carried out with car engines running to drown out the sounds of gunfire and the screams of the murdered
>Most political prisoners, however, faced death. Cybulski reported that victims were called out from their cells in groups of 20–40 and then shot in the prison yard
>in its final phase, the building was set on fire. The NKVD likely started the fire to cover up the evidence of their crimes
>over 2,000 people, were killed by NKVD officers.[44] The piles of corpses found in the basements of Brygidki were stacked from 4 to 5 layers deep
>bodies bore signs of torture
>bodies had skulls crushed with axes or blunt objects, skin peeled from hands, fingers and genitals cut off, and signs of being burned alive
>female bodies with breasts cut off and signs of rape
>executions were carried out very hastily, using grenades and machine guns
>only part of the bodies from Lviv's prisons were exhumed and ceremoniously buried