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These partisans were killed on December 15, 1949 in the village of Šlynakiemis.
LTAI conducts archaeological research at the Suwalki Evangelical Cemetery.
According to punskas.pl, the cemetery in the post-war years was the headquarters of Polish security. Therefore, it is likely that the participants of the Lithuanian resistance were buried in this part of the cemetery.
Dozens of Lithuanian partisans were killed in Poland
Rytas Narvydas, Head of the Special Investigation Division of the Lithuanian Center for Studies on Genocide and Resistance (LGGRTC), visited the cemetery on Thursday.
He punskas.pl said that it is likely that in addition to the two aforementioned partisans, the remains of three other Lithuanian partisans may be buried in this cemetery.
“It is known that several Lithuanian partisans were killed on the territory of Poland … They carried out various tasks here, some of them cooperated with the Polish armed underground,” he said.
According to R.Narvydas, the Lithuanian partisans Jurgis Krikščiūnas and Vytautas Prabulis are known to be buried in Suwalki, or more precisely, buried.
The test will be done after receiving the DNA samples.
“We agreed with the Poles that we would take part in that process, we would look for our relatives and take their DNA samples. As soon as there are samples, it will be possible to carry out expert tests and establish the identity of the people,” R. Narvydas told BNS on Friday.
He also told the news agency that the Suwalki evangelical cemetery was used by the Polish security services for the same purpose as the orphan cemetery in Vilnius after the war. It was an inactive and rarely visited cemetery, hiding the bodies of resisters murdered or murdered in unclear circumstances.
An employee of the Genocide Center stated that he was surprised to find a symbolic grave of J.Krikščiūnas and V. Prabulis in the Suwalki cemetery.
BNS cites data from the Genocide Center, according to which J. Krikščiūnas-Rimvydas, the head of the Dainava District Personnel Information and Communications Division, crossed the Polish border in the spring of 1949.
He was to inform the West about the formation of the general party leadership and the situation in Lithuania. It transported to the West many materials collected and arranged by the partisans about the Soviet repression, but the material disappeared on the way to Warsaw.
J. Lukša-Daumantas, who was already in the West at that time, asked J. Krikščiūnas to return to Lithuania through the liaison officers and try to at least recreate this material from memory and bring it to France. J. Krikščiūnas performed this task. J. Lukša, based on the material received, prepared a memorandum for the United Nations with the Central Committee for the Liberation of Lithuania.
Surrounded by the communist army on the Polish border, J. Krikščiūnas was killed in a bunker together with V. Prabulis-Žaiba.
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