Hoa Lo Prison Relic welcomes over 4,000 visitors during national holiday

Students of Hanoi-based Dien Bien Primary School try to hide in an A-shape bomb shelter inside Hoa Lo Prison Relic Site.

The number of visitors during this three-day national holiday increased by 53.8 per cent against the previous year. Most of the visitors were children under 15 and older people who got tickets for free.

The management board said that more youngsters have come to the relic these days. It demonstrates that teaching history with practical knowledge has become more attractive to students, thereby arousing the national pride in them.

Visiting this place, apart from eye-witnessing a system of cells, including cachots (dungeons) and death rows, visitors can see images of revolutionaries under brutal tortures of French colonialists. Many prisoners were also punished according to the prison regulations, such as being imprisoned in a dungeon, chained with manacles in the ankle, locked up after dinner, chained at night, and forced to work hard, among others.

Students are listening to introductions on the relic.

Despite tortures, prisoners of war kept combating resiliently to fulfill the duties of a communist in prison.

Translated by Mai Huong