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Çurçi’s Home

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Emri Çurçi's Home
Vendndodhja: Shkodra
Viti i Ndërtimit: 1944
Viti i Mbylljes: 1947

It wasn’t a prison, but it was definitely a place of suffering and torture for political convicts. Çurçi’s Home, by Sahati i Inglizit (Englishman’s Clock) in Shkodra, operated as an interrogation office from 1944 to 1947. It was a three-floor building, at the first floor of which there were the interrogation rooms, but only so in name. These rooms, corridors and the building’s yard were above all torture sites for the arrested.

Interrogators Zoi Themeli, Nesti Kopali and Fadil Kapisyzi are infamous for their cruelty.

Zef Pllumi, who was interrogated in this building for his first trial, describes dhe dehumanization of the arrested from hunger, thirst and torture, as well as the summary executions during the night.He, as well as other detainees, would be regularly left hanging at the peach tree of the house’s yard during the nigh