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“Early yesterday morning, Algis Didžiulis reached the last stop of his life’s journey. Today in Bogotá, let us accompany him to the next one.
It is difficult to write a couple of sentences about Diedukas because the whole book can easily come out. I’m not kidding.
Diedukas emigrated from Lithuania during World War II penniless and became one of the richest people in Colombia. Without exception, he fell in love with a country that gave him “everything”, but never left Lithuania. He never forgot who he was.
During the years of occupation, he supported Lithuanian communities, emigrants and various initiatives, and during the time of independence he contributed to the reconstruction of Lithuania. By the way, you can thank him and his brother for the Klaipeda Oil Terminal, which ensured the initial “energy independence” of independent Lithuania.
Maybe share her bio later so you can imagine how much people make in 91 years of life sometimes. There are many merits, achievements, adventures and unexpected events.
However, her biography doesn’t say much about what she really was: a witty, empathetic, generous, playful, bloated, and complex personality with a magical flair, a sharp tongue, and lots of “panics.” He was a real character. It would be possible to write the book not because of what he did, but because he was a charismatic soul who is easy to love, ”writes Jurgis Didžiulis on Facebook.
Jurgis Didžiulis is currently visiting Bogotá with his wife Erica Jennings and their children.
Delphi remember that Jurgis Didžiulis’ grandparents, Laima and Algis Didžiuliai, lived in Colombia for almost 70 years.
Mrs. Laima arrived in Colombia in 1948 and her future husband in 1949. After the war, their families met in Germany. George’s grandfather graduated from the gym there and earned money translating into German and French. In Colombia, it was necessary to start over, from the job of a cow milking supervisor. However, it was in the village that he met Laima’s father and later himself.
“When I first saw Laima, I knew he would direct her,” Didžiulis said in 2014.
Subsequently, her husband graduated as an engineer, her wife as a physiotherapist, and in 1999 he became honorary consul of Lithuania in Colombia.
“We dance under the bolero. Many young people don’t even know this genre now, “Didžiuliai recalled.
According to them, almost all educated Lithuanians lived in Latin America quite a few years later.
“You knew that you would be a common worker in the United States, and in Colombia, having learned the language, which I did in 6 months, you could work in a specialty. I don’t know anyone who would have lived as a poor person, ”continued A. Didžiulis, who worked as an engineer and later in a company founded by his brother.
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