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This year, the organizers of the “Speak, listen, save” commemorative campaign, the “Mission Siberia” project, decided to make sense of the campaign with a new symbol: the July Ring. Such a symbol was chosen in memory of 1941 June 14 Lithuanian Deportations. According to the organizers, it was at that time that July began to flourish in the country, making it one of the last images of the homeland, which the deportees took to distant Siberia. This symbol decorated the bell tower of the Vilnius cathedral tonight.
“Every year we try to make the Day of Mourning and Hope more and more massive, and as many people as possible join the various forms of commemoration. Sometimes it seems that this day has not yet found its place among the dates mentioned, so we decided to give Lithuania a symbol that would be acceptable to both youth and deportees. The July ring reminds us of Vilnius and the guests of the city on Tonight’s Day of Mourning and Hope ” , says Aistė Eidukaitytė, the leader of the “Mission Siberia” project, which organizes the “Tell him, listen, save” campaign.
This year, for the fifth consecutive year, the “Speak, Listen, Save” campaign aims to express more than 40,000 names and destinations of deportees and political prisoners by reading them live and in virtual readings. The campaign can be viewed directly on the platform www.birzelio14.lt and on the news portal Delphi until June 15 at 12 noon.
Almost 300,000 people in the country are estimated to have suffered deportation and imprisonment as a result of Soviet repression. The destinations of some of them are unknown to date.
Anyone who wants to contribute to the “Mission Siberia” project and help preserve history can do so on the donation platform aukok.lt.
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