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The remains of two partisans sentenced to death and shot by the Soviet occupiers were found and found in the Vilnius orphan cemetery: Vytautas Miškinis-Viesulas, the 33-year-old chief of staff of the Sartai district of the Lokis district of the Vytautas district (shot in 1962) and the 35-year prison The Fox is the last partisan sentenced to death (shot in 1963).
2019 The remains of 34 partisans have been hummed again in the Leipalingis cemetery of the Druskininkai municipality, of which the remains of 7 partisans and 2 sponsors have already been identified, and the remains of 3 other people are being identified.
Alfonsas Bubnelis, a 16-year-old sponsor, Vytautas Kauzonas, an 18-year-old liaison officer, and Petras Vilkelis-Barzdukas, 39, the leader of the Vytenis homeland of the Dainava district, were identified in Leipaling. Vytautas Magnus University, Faculty of Medicine, student Antanas Šerkšnas-Bijūnas, 31 years old. Bolius Sotnikas-Milžinas, as well as supporters of the Juozapavičius homeland from the Dainava district Šainūnas team: 19-year-old Petras Videika-Klevas and 25-year-old Petras Videika-Klevas Vladas Amšiejus-Neris. All these participants in the fight for freedom were killed in the parish of Leipalingis.
For more information on how they were killed, read here: Research Center – Find and Identify the Remains of 11 Partisans and their Supporters.
20 thousand died, units were found
As the director of LGGRTC, Adas Jakubauskas, said at the press conference, it was a long job that did not get much publicity.
VIDEO: LGGRTC: Find and Identify Remains of 11 Armed Resistance Participants and Their Supporters
“20 thousand people died in freedom fights. Partisans, the remains of most of whom have not been found so far. Of the eight signatories of the Lithuanian Freedom Fighting Movement, only two were found: the remains of Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanags were found thanks to the efforts of the Center. The signer Bronius Liesius-Naktis was found and buried there in Radviliškis. Unfortunately, we will no longer find the tomb of Jonas Žemaitis, because after his shooting in Butyrkai prison, his remains they were cremated and the ashes were buried in the Donská cemetery, Moscow. The center continues to work on the search and location of the partisans’ remains, “said the director.
According to A.Jakubauskas, the remains of Juozas Lukša-Daumantas are also being searched, and in the near future it is expected to find Juozas Vitkas-Kazimieraitis, whom A.Ramanauskas-Vanagas called his teacher, and Lionginas Baliutavičius-Dzūkas, famous for his journal published by LGGRTC.
“We are happy to meet all the partisans, because without ordinaries there would be no glory for the commanders,” said A. Jakubauskas.
About a hundred remains have yet to be found at Leipaling
Head of the Memorial Department of the LGGRT Center The advisor Eugenijus Peikštenis, speaking about the investigation in Leipaling, said that in 2019. The relatives of Juozas Vitkus-Kazimieraitis requested to discover his remains. A funeral commission was formed, but as relatives of other victims in the area also requested, it was decided not to look for the remains of a particular partisan, but of all.
“It just came to our attention then. Excellent 1946 the document was discovered by the chief historian Rimantas Zagreckas, where there was a letter from the Minister of the Interior of the USSR, in which the Ministers of the Interior of Lithuania, Latvia and Belarus received instructions from that, as we write, the “bandits” must be taken to the central county, they are photographed, identified and secretly buried.
It was learned how many partisans died in Leipalingis parish. There are about 170 people. We needed to find his loved ones so we could take DNA samples. It is also a great job. Those remains were exhumed and already last year, nine of the 34 were identified, three more were almost identified ”, said E. Peikštenis.
Photo by Rokas Lukoševičius / 15min / Eugenijus Peikštenis
He stated that around a hundred remains have not yet been found at Leipaling, and that works are also planned to continue this year.
There were about 250 districts in Lithuania, so expect a lot of work, said E.Peikštenis. Additional research can take 10-20 years.
Rimantas Zagreckas said the identified partisans and their supporters had died in 1947-1948-1949, showing that investigators have not yet found the areas where the fighters who died in 1946 and 1950 were buried.
“I would like to remind you that in 1946. J.Vitkus-Kazimieraitis was assassinated in 1950. – L.Baliutavičius-Dzūkas. We have not discovered those areas yet and we will do so this summer,” said the historian.
The search is driven by scientific progress
LGGRTC male Historian Dalius Žygelis says that when Kazimieraitis relatives applied for the center, he first asked them why they had done it only now, only in 2019.
When the center in 2018 found the remains of A. Ramanauskas-Vanags, many people were hopeful that their loved ones could also be found.
“It just came to our knowledge then. The answer was very simple. It was clear from him why this is the case. They said: we did not know the current possibilities of science and technology. He went after the center in 2018. He found the remains of A. Ramanauskas-Vanags and discovered his identity using the DNA research method, many people in Lithuania were hoping that their relatives could also be found precisely because of the advancement of science and the advancement of technology, ”said D. Žygelis.
According to him, the relatives of J. Vitkus-Kazimieraitis, seeing the results of the work, also believed that their man could also be found. In recent years, the center has been inundated with requests from loved ones to find their relatives.
“As for the orphan cemetery, we had a list of all the freedom fighters buried in the orphan cemetery. We have already found everyone on that list. The last ones were Vytautas Miškinis-Viesulas and Pranciškus Prūsaitis-Lapė ”, said D. Žygelis.
But there are also remnants of supporters whose list did not include, say, Antanas Kraujalis-Siaubūnas. This leads us to believe that researchers still expect many surprises in these and other cemeteries in the Vilnius area.
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