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“It just came to our notice then. What are you going to do? People will go out and let them rest in peace. You know, they say the saints go out during the holidays. He left for Hanukkah,” Kukliansky told BNS on Friday.
According to her, I. Veisaitė has been an active member of the community since its inception, learning kindness, forgiveness, and understanding through her life and daily activities.
He was a unique man.
“He was a unique man who spent half his life in a Jewish family, he spent part of his life in a non-Jewish family, he had several life experiences: both the death of his mother and the kindness of the rescuers, he spent part of her life in busy Kaunas. And to all these calamities and troubles in life, to all the losses, she has remained a very benevolent person: not only is she decent and wishes everyone well, little about which you will hear a bad word. His life did not hurt him, “said the community leader.
According to her, I. Veisaitė demonstrated in her life that it makes no sense to create contradictions between one horror and another: the isolation of Jews in the ghetto or deportations.
“It just came to our attention then. She was among and among others. On both sides, people who have lost their fundamental human rights are at a disadvantage,” emphasized F. Kukliansky.
I.Veisaitė’s activities also gave a great boost to kindness and greater mutual understanding towards the Lithuanian Jewish community. According to the community leader, I. Veisaitė was a man who chose not to fight, but to create. He loved music, actively participated in community events.
According to F. Kukliansky, even after reaching a respectable age, I. Veisaitė remained active and optimistic.
Photo by Sigismund Gedvila / 15min / Faina Kukliansky
“She was never alone, she was not alone, she never complained. Even the fact that I had to climb the stairs to her apartment, told me that the stairs would save me, I did not stop walking. I went for a walk every day as much as she did. they allowed his forces. He really followed his age to perfection and that internal energy and intelligence did not allow him to age prematurely, “said the leader of the Jewish community.
She was never alone, she was not alone, she never complained.
I.Veisaitė was born into a Jewish family in 1928 in Kaunas. During World War II, she was imprisoned in the Kaunas ghetto, rescued from the Holocaust, and hidden by Lithuanian friends.
After the war, I. Veisaitė studied Lithuanian language and literature at Vilnius University, in 1953 he graduated in German studies at Moscow University, graduated from Saint Petersburg University (then Leningrad).
Since 1953, he taught at the Vilnius Pedagogical University for almost five decades. She has published more than 200 articles in the Lithuanian and foreign press on topics of literature, theater, Lithuanian-Jewish relations of the 20th century, history of the Holocaust and, in 2016, a book of conversations with her, the historian Aurimas Švedas.
I. Veisaitė was also one of the founders of the Open Society Foundation of Lithuania and the long-term chair of the board of this foundation.
The scientist has won many state awards and this year she also received the German award – the Grand Cross of Merit.
In 2002, he was named Man of Tolerance of the Year for his efforts to improve Lithuanian-Jewish relations, research on Litvak cultural heritage, and the pursuit and promotion of Lithuanian-Jewish moral dialogue.
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